Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday described a father’s claim that his minor daughter accused him of rape simply out of anger as “too far-fetched.”Upholding the man’s life term, a division bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shreeram Shirsat dismissed the father’s plea challenging a March 2020 judgment of a special Pocso court sentencing him to life imprisonment for raping his minor daughter on several occasions. The accused argued his daughter implicated him because he had forced her to discontinue studies, a move he framed as a parental disciplinary measure that sparked her resentment. The HC insisted his theory could not be accepted. “But it would be far-fetched to accept that only for this reason the daughter made such serious, drastic, and far-reaching (rape) allegations against her father,” the bench observed. In 2018, the minor had reported years of abuse during a counselling session.
