Impersonator sent to life in prison for rape

Rapist had promised a job and kidnapped the victim

A Ranga Reddy district court on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison and a penalty of `90, 000 for the kidnap and sexual assault of a girl from Hayathnagar.

Last July 25, the accused, Aithem Ravi, lured a girl on the pretext of providing a job and kidnapped her from Hayathnagar. He took her to Kadapa, Chilkaluripeta, Addanki and other areas in a car and raped her.

Ravi had taken her family members along in the initial part of the day and then dropped them off late at night on some pretext and drove way with the girl. He dropped off the girl at the Mahatma Gandhi

Bus Station at Imlibun, from where she was reunited with her family.

On his arrest, he was lodged at Cherlapally central prison, while Preventive Detention Act was also invoked against him.

Rachakonda police had addressed a letter to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court at LB Nagar urging for a speedy trial, as he was wanted in several cases in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Since 2001, Ravi was involved in 38 cases of cheating by impersonating as a government official. In three cases, he was convicted but escaped from the clutches of Visakhapatnam police and went absconding before he kidnapped the girl in Hayathnagar.

The First Special Court for Atrocities against Women’s Court conducted the trial of the cases, and Judge Maruthi Devi examined 27 witnesses.

SINCE 2001, Ravi was involved in 38 cases of cheating by impersonating as a government official. In three cases, he was convicted.