Gujarat teacher sentenced to life for raping, impregnating minor student
Updated: Feb 12th, 2025
A special CBI court on Tuesday sentenced a teacher to life imprisonment and imposed ₹7 lakh fine for eloping and raping three girl students.
In 2014, a trial court had sentenced Dhaval Trivedi, a 52-year-old teacher, to life imprisonment under the POCSO Act for raping a minor in Rajkot.
After getting parole from this sentence, he came out of jail and started English tuition in Chotila where he trapped a young woman by professing love. In August 2018, he eloped with her. After a habeas corpus was filed by the girl’s father in Gujarat High Court, the high court handed over the case to the CBI.
As per reports, after absconding, Trivedi was running a medical store in Gaidi near Haridwar under a false identity.
In March 2020, after a fight with the young woman, she revealed Trivedi’s true identity to the landlord, causing him to flee. CBI finally arrested him in 2020 after receiving leads about Trivedi from the young woman.
The court noted that the crime against the accused has been proven. Such a crime cannot be taken lightly.
Special Advocate Varun Trivedi, presented 27 witnesses and 69 documents, proving the case against the accused, stating that the accused had previously been convicted in a rape case in Rajkot. It was proved that after obtaining parole from Rajkot, he trapped a young woman from Chotila, raped her, and impregnated her.
Womaniser and serial offender
Dhaval Trivedi of Vadodara, after completing higher studies, married a girl from Mumbai in 2003. However, his wife passed away just six months into their marriage.
Returning to Vadodara from Mumbai, Dhaval ensnared a girl from Punjab at Maharaja Sayajirao University in his web of deceit. Claiming to be a Punjabi himself, he married her.
After that, he trapped another girl and married her in Anand through Arya Samaj rituals. The girl from Chotila was his ninth victim. Dhaval Trivedi had deceived nine girls and ruined their lives, but was in search of another girl to trap, intending to later write a book titled ‘Ten Perfect Women in My Life’.
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