A 40-year-old man was sentenced to twenty years in jail by a particular court docket in Odisha’s Balasore district Saturday for raping a five-year-old woman.
The incident happened on Could 3 when the woman’s mom despatched her to a close-by store to purchase cleaning soap. On the best way, the person bought maintain of her.
Promising her some snacks, he took her to a secluded place the place he raped her, in response to the prosecution. Moreover sentencing him to twenty years in jail, the particular POCSO court docket of Decide Ranjan Kumar Sutar imposed a advantageous of `5,000.
The person was convicted underneath IPC part 376 (AB) and the POCSO Act, stated Particular Public Prosecutor Pranab Kumar Panda. The court docket directed the District Authorized Providers Authority (DLSA) to pay a compensation of `4 lakhs to the survivor.
