Judgment

V.R. KRISHNA IYER :- Parvati, an unsophisticated girl of 17 was wending her way home at about sunset along a public street in the artless town of Sitaplur in Bihar when Smt. Devki, the petitioner before us, with diabolic design, swooped down and snatched her into a taxi-cab and blitzed away. The weeping victim was medicated into unconsciousness, removed to Dhanbad and further on, to destination Haryana. Tragically, where tourists abound, satellite industries in female flesh flourish unless the State crusades with militant zeal to stamp out this terrible vice. Anyway, Parvati, by now enslaved in a village villa, was offered for material sale to affluent lecherous youths. The damsel in distress desperately escaped through a half-ajar door and eventually landed in a police station. The police investigation unraveled the pathetic story and ended up in a case, conviction, appeal, confirmation and, finally, in this special leave petition to this Court which is the last refuge of every vanquished litigant.

2. Confronted by concurrent findings of guilt, counsel for the petitioner gave up his attack on the conviction and concentrated his fire on the sentence, which, in this case, was