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Chandigarh, April 3 A 72-year-old rape victim, who is hearing and speech impaired, identified her tormentor in court today using the sign language and narrated the trauma she went through. The woman, who was allegedly raped by a 28-year-old youth last year, faced great difficulty in expressing herself due to her handicap. An expert was also roped in by the court to provide assistance to the woman and later the judge, too, called her to her seat for recording statements as she was hesitant. The woman's deposition was also video-graphed by the court. According to the case registered last year, the elderly woman was raped by her 28-year-old neighbour Om Parkash Misra. A complaint in the matter was submitted by the elderly woman's son following which a case was registered. The proceedings in the court were recorded in-camera. The elderly identified the accused and also explained what all had happened with her. The defence counsel also completed her cross-examination. The 72-year-old was not able to understand some of the questions, which the court recorded in her statements. According to the police case, Om Prakash was employed with a cable company in Chandigarh and went to the residence of the woman around 9 pm on October 31, 2014. He took the complainant's mother out for a walk. However, when the accused did not return with the elderly woman for long, the complainant went looking for him. The complainant told the police that he had found the accused raping his mother at a park near the government school in Secto -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
