Man sentenced to 20-yr RI for minor's abduction & rape
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Cuttack: A special Pocso court here convicted a 28-year-old man of kidnapping and raping a minor girl and sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment of 20 years.
Presiding judge Himansu Sekhar Singh on Tuesday also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict, while recommending the case of the 15-year-old rape survivor to the district legal services authority (DLSA) for giving a compensation as per the Odisha Victim Compensation Scheme.
"The victim was a minor at the time of occurrence and she was sexually assaulted by the man. The victim is accordingly awarded Rs 6 lakh as compensation under the scheme," the judge said, adding, "The copy of the judgment be forwarded to the secretary, DLSA, Cuttack for information and necessary action."
Special public prosecutors Ramesh Chandra Mohanty and Biswajit Ray led the prosecution, while advocate S K Lenka represented the convict.
"The prosecution establishes the fundamental facts of the case against the convict. Even if the convict took the plea that he was falsely implicated due to monetary dispute with the father of the victim, no evidence is laid in this respect. Nothing could be brought out from the material witnesses to support such defence," the trial court observed.
According to the trial court order, the incident was reported at a police station in Cuttack city by the girl's mother on Jan 1 last year.
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She alleged that her daughter was kidnapped by the convict.
Police rescued the girl on Jan 4 and arrested the accused two days later.
The prosecution case was that the convict was in a relationship with the girl for around five months and then with the assurance of marriage, he kidnapped her by taking the advantage of absence of her parents. Later, he sexually assaulted her several times.
The man was an undertrial prisoner since his arrest.
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