Man gets 10-yr jail term for raping schizophrenic woman

The sessions court has sentenced a 55-year-old resident of Thane to ten years of imprisonment for raping a 24-year-old woman with schizophrenia while she was roaming on a platform at Dadar railway station in May 2019.

- Revu Suresh

MUMBAI:

The labourer had taken her to his place in Diva, by promising to take her to an orphanage in the city.

The woman had been residing at multiple orphanages since her childhood, and in 2019, left a home of a charitable trust in Nalasopara and started living at another home in Saki Naka.

In Saki Naka, she was told about an ashram in Pune, following which she took a train and reached Dadar to go to Pune.

According to the prosecution, while waiting at the station, the convict, Raju Raipuram, promised to take the woman to an orphanage in the city.

Later, he took her to his place in Diva, where he raped her, after which he took her to the ashram in Pune.