jail, jail demo – Photo: File photo Expansion In Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district, a criminal father has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. He raped his step-daughter continuously for two years and beat her when she protested. The shocking thing is that the victim’s daughter turned hostile in the court, and the DNA report also did not match. Despite this, the court acted strictly. Also said that the accused cannot be acquitted merely on the basis of negative DNA report. According to the information, the matter is related to Sirsi area of ​​Guna district. The matter is of last year. A minor resident of Sirsi area had written a report against her step father in 2021. He had told the police that his father had died in 2021. After some time his mother remarried. He and his siblings started living with his stepfather. The minor had told the police that his stepfather misbehaved with him. This series started in 2021. Where he would get a chance, he would rape a minor. The minor protested several times but the accused also assaulted her several times. Finally one day he told this to his mother. When she protested in front of the stepfather, the accused beat up the mother as well. The accused said that she is his step daughter. He can do anything with her. To save him from his step father, the mother of the minor left him at the place of her relative living in Kumbhraj area. The accused came to know about it. He also reached Kumbhraj to pick up the minor. There the minor called the police. After registering the report of the girl, the police started their investigation and arrested the accused. His medical was also done. During the hearing in the court, the victim’s daughter retracted from her statements. The court also conducted a DNA test but that too was negative. Varsha Sharma, special judge for POCSO cases, convicted the accused and said that merely on the basis of negative DNA report, the accused cannot be acquitted. It is necessary to mention at this stage that DNA test in itself is not conclusive evidence and the said DNA test is only corroborative evidence. The victim’s mother, brother and sister confirm that the accused committed rape with the victim, but as revealed from the victim’s statements that due to the absence of the accused in the family, the family was not properly nurtured. Being able to Therefore, it appears that due to family irony, the victim has involuntarily not given oral evidence against the accused before the court. Therefore, the accused cannot be acquitted merely on the basis of negative DNA report. If the circumstantial evidence is strong, it is sufficient to convict the accused. The court sentenced the stepfather to life imprisonment. ,