A special court in Mumbai has sentenced a bus conductor to one year in jail for talking to a 13-year-old girl about 'sex'. The court found the accused Chandrakant Sudam Koli guilty under section 12 of the POCSO Act and imposed a one-year sentence and a fine of Rs 15,000 on him. In default of payment of fine, he shall undergo further rigorous imprisonment for three months.
This incident is from the year 2018. A girl living in the eastern suburbs used to go to school every morning in the government bus of Mumbai BEST and return by noon. Only 2 or 3 people were sitting in the bus on the day of the incident. During this, bus conductor Chandrakant Sudam Koli came to her and sat next to her.
Koli asked the girl if she knew anything about 'sex'. To which the girl said that he should not ask such questions to her. The conductor left for a while, but when he returned to the girl, he again questioned about sex. The girl again asked him not to ask such questions and as soon as her bus stop came, she got off the bus.
After a few days when the girl refused to go to school by bus, the victim's mother asked her, but she did not inform about it. When the mother asked the victim's friend, she informed about it, after which the mother took the girl to the bus depot and identified the accused Koli. After this, the mother filed a case against the accused. After this, the police arrested the accused the next day.
After his arrest, the accused Chandrakant Sudam Koli went to jail for only 12 days. After that he got bail. Koli's lawyers have filed an application for suspension of the sentence to file an appeal. Accepting this, the court postponed the sentence for 30 days.
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