A 73-year-old man charged with raping his three close family members has been granted bail by the Suva High Court.
He provided two sureties to the court and has been released on strict bail conditions.
The man has also been told not to interfere with prosecution witnesses.
The prosecution has no objections to bail.
It is alleged the 73-year-old man first sexually assaulted his 10-year-old daughter in 1982.
She is alleged to have been impregnated by him when she was 15-years-old.
It is alleged that she was continually molested for ten years.
The man then allegedly raped the daughter he had with his own daughter.
The second victim was first allegedly sexually assaulted when she was 10-years-old in 1997.
It is alleged that she was continually molested till 2013.
The third complainant who is the man’s granddaughter in law was allegedly raped in 2016 when she was 20-years-old.
The elderly man is facing four counts of rape and three counts of indecent assault.
The dates of the alleged offences range from 1982 to November 2016 which happened in Rakiraki and Suva.
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