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Time of India
18-07-2025
- Time of India
Man gets 20-yr RI for raping 6-year-old girl
1 2 Cuttack: A special Pocso court in Cuttack on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old man to rigorous imprisonment for 20 years for raping a 6-year-old girl last year. "No lenience can be shown to the convict, who has committed the offence under Pocso Act when the same is proved by adequate evidence," presiding Judge Himansu Sekhar Singh observed while pronouncing the sentence. The judge also imposed fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict while recommending the district legal services authority to provide a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the survivor, considering her age at the time of the crime. "The copy of the judgment be forwarded to the secretary, DLSA, Cuttack for information and necessary action," the judge ordered. According to the trial court order, the incident was reported in a police station by the father of the survivor on Nov 20, 2024. He alleged that on the previous day, the accused, a tractor driver, had raped his daughter after giving her chocolate when he and his wife were away working at a nearby brick kiln. The trial court ruled the "prosecution is found to have established beyond reasonable doubt" that the girl was less than 12 years at the time of occurrence of the crime and charged him under sections 63 and 65(2) of BNS and under sections of Pocso Act. "Nothing could be brought out from the material witnesses to support the defence claim of false implication. The decision relied on by the defence counsel is found to be not helpful in the present facts and circumstances of the case," the court observed. Special public prosecutor Biswajit Ray led the prosecution, while advocate S R Mallick represented the convict.
Time of India
25-05-2025
- Time of India
Former panchayat officer of Keluapalli arrested for misappropriating govt funds
1 2 Berhampur: Police on Sunday arrested the former panchayat executive officer (PEO) of Keluapalli at Rangeilunda block in Ganjam district for allegedly misappropriating over Rs 1.37 crore of govt money by forging the sarpanch's signature in cheques. The accused, identified as Sameer Kumar Mishra (29), was arrested after Biswajit Ray, block development officer, lodged an FIR at Golanthara police station on Sunday. Ray found financial irregularities in the panchayat during audit for the year of 2023-24, police said. Accordingly, police registered a case against the officer and during investigation, found the misappropriation of govt funds by the accused, Berhampur SP Sarvana Vivek M said. Police said two cell phones, including an iPhone, and an ATM card were seized from his possession. The accused worked as the PEO in Kelluapalli from 2019 till March 2025, before he took charge as the PEO of Laudigaon. During his tenure as Kelluapalli's PEO, Mishra was managing all financial transactions of the panchayat with the sarpanch's approval. To facilitate development works, he was entrusted with financial transaction and kept the bank passbooks and cheques. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Kickstart your new journey with the Honda Shine 125 Honda Learn More Undo At the time of withdrawal of money, he allegedly put the forged the sarpanch's signature in cheque books and withdrew over Rs 1.37 crore in the last 12 months. Police said he allegedly prepared a duplicate passbook and handed it over to the new PEO in the panchayat. He also allegedly produced the same duplicate passbook for verification during audit. Further investigation in the case was going on to find out if other persons were involved in the crime, police said.
