Man jailed for 20 yrs for minor's kidnap & rape
Failure to pay would result in his sentence being increased by another year.
On Jan 28, 2024, the survivor's mother filed an FIR alleging that the accused had kidnapped her daughter when she was alone in the house. Acting on the FIR, police arrested the accused on Feb 18, more than a year after the crime.
Pronouncing the verdict, Justice Pragyan Paramita Roul convicted the man and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment on charges of raping and kidnapping the minor girl after relying on the evidence of nine witnesses, including the survivor and the medical report, special public prosecutor Manoj Kumar Sahu, said.
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