Ajmer court sentences 6 convicts to life term in 32-yr-old sex scandal case

JAIPUR: Six of the prime accused in the sordid Ajmer sex scandal that surfaced 32 years ago were given life imprisonment by a POCSO court on Tuesday.

Judge Ranjan Singh of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Ajmer has also slapped fines of Rs 5 lakh each on the accused along with their life sentence. Seen as the country’s worst sex scandal, the Ajmer case rocked Rajasthan in 1992.

It involved the exploitation of over 100 school and college girls. Most of the victims, aged between 11 and 20, were trapped by a gang that lured them into affairs, then photographed them in compromising positions, and subsequently used the pictures to blackmail, rape and sexually exploit the victims.

The POCSO court (Number-2) identified the accused as Nafees Chishti (54), Naseem alias Tarzan (55), Salim Chishti (55), Iqbal Bhati (52), Sohil Ghani (53) and Syed Zameer Hussain (60). All the 6 convicts were present in the court when the sentence was delivered.