Kailasahar : miscreant youth sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for abduction and rape of minor girl in landmark judgment

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, December 5, 2025

In a landmark judgment the additional district and session judge of Unakoti Amarendra Kumar Sinha sentenced proven kidnapper and rapist of a minor girl, Arid Ali to twenty years rigorous imprisonment for abduction and rape of a minor Muslim girl three years ago. The order was pronounced yesterday after a long process of trial . Apart from the long jail term the convicted miscreant youth was also fined Rs 10 thousand whose non-payment will add to the jail term by six more months.

Sources from Kailasahar said that on October 25 2022 convicted Arid Ali (30), son of Rahaman Ali of pakhirbaba area under Ichhabpur Gram Panchayt and one of his accomplices, had abducted a minor girl (whose name can not be put on record because of legal restriction) of Srinathpur panhchayat in the evening. She had not returned home from a nearby area as she had been forcibly put on a motor bike and kidnapped. The girl’s father filed a specific complaint with name and address of the abductor with the Irani police station on October 26 2022.

Within two days the inquiry officer (IO) in the case Kinkar Paul rescued the minor girl from Golakpur tea estate and got her medically checked up and this confirmed the rape. Having conducted a thorough inquiry IO Kinkar Paul filed a charge-sheet against Arid Ali in the Kailasahar special court on November 30 2022, invoking the POCSO act and relevant other acts against rape and abduction. After a long trial in the course of which 13 people gave testimonies in the court the additional district and session judge Amarendra Kumar Sinha pronounced the order yesterday , sentencing rapist Arid Ali who already had two wives and multiple children when the abducted and raped the minor . to twenty years rigorous imprisonment and putting a fine on him.

The public prosecutor of Kailasahar district court Sunirmal Deb who conducted the case on behalf of the government said that the judicial order was just and fair in terms of existing law. He expressed the hope that the order will act as a deterrent against heinous crime like abduction of girls and women for rape.

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