Former Police Officer Michael Shalendra Pratap has been sentenced to twelve years and eleven months imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old girl on 22nd January last year.
While sentencing Pratap, Suva High Court Judge Justice Vincent Perera said that the offence is serious when the victim is a child.
He said that there is a 27-year-age gap between Pratap and the girl and Pratap tied the girl’s hand and raped her.
Justice Perera said that the defence counsel has said that Pratap served as a police officer for twenty years - and being a police officer he raped a girl.
He has been given a non-parole period of 11 years and 11 months.
