Jammu and Kashmir Court April 1972 Judgments

Yadu Ram Alias Anand Sagar Vs. State

Court: Jammu and Kashmir

Reported in: 1972CriLJ1464

S.M.F. Ali, C.J.1.The appellant has been convicted under Section 376, RPC and sentenced seven years' simple imprisonment by the learned Sessions Judge Jammu for having committed rape on P. W. 2 Shakti Dhar. a small girl of eight years. It appears that the appellant who posed to be a religious preacher utilized the services of young girls to slake his sexual lust and having ravished one girl after the other he used Kamla. his victim, as an agent to procure other eirls for him. P. W. 2 Shakti Dhar was introduced to him by P. W. Kamla who was a friend of Shakti,2. Put briefly the prosecution case was as follows. The appellant. Yado Ram alias Anand Sagar was oriainally a resident of district Gursaon and came to the State about 15 years ago, For the last 13 years the appellant had settled himself down at the Satsang Bhawan at Parkash Mandir in Mohalla Rani Talab Jammu. He set himself up as a relieious leader, preacher and orator. His eloquence and protund knowledge of Vedanta philosophy att...