Ranchi: A special CBI court has ordered life imprisonment to Raqibul alias Ranjit Kohli, husband of national shooter Tara Shahdeo and 10 years imprisonment to his mother, Kausar Rani in connection to an eight-year-old case of forced conversion and harassment. Also, the then registrar of High Court, Mustaque Ahmed has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
The three were found guilty by the court on September 30 but the verdict was reserved for today. Following the court's verdict, Tara thanked the court and CBI. She said that the verdict assures that whoever is wronged will get justice. "The reason as to why I moved court is that I wanted no other woman to undergo my suffering," she said.
On the orders of Jharkhand High Court, CBI took over the Tara Shahdeo case in 2015. On May 12, 2017, CBI filed a chargesheet against the trio in which Tara Shahdeo alleged that her husband and in-laws pressurised her to convert her religion. Tara also accused her husband of sexual and dowry harassment. The three were found guilty under sections 120B, 376(2) (conspiracy to repeatedly rape the same woman), 298 (hurting religious sentiments) and 496 (marriage by force or by fraudulent means) of the IPC.
