India, June 23 -- Upholding the life sentence handed out to a man convicted for raping his daughter in 2015, the Bombay High Court shot down his defence that the girl had said nothing about the incident to a woman whose shop she waited at after the incident. "It was not possible that the victim would have immediately told about the incident to a third person particularly when the offence was committed by her own father," a division bench of justices Sarang Kotwal and Ashish Chavan observed.

The court noted in its judgement on June 15 that the girl had informed her mother immediately on her return from work after which there was no delay in filing the FIR. Just because the victim had not narrated the incident to the woman at the shop, "it...