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The Additional District Judge-cum-Special Judge, Kendrapara, on Tuesday sentenced a 70 year-old-man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment after finding the septuagenarian guilty of raping a
nine-year-old minor girl from a village under the Pattamundai police station jurisdiction in Odisha’s Kendrapara district last year. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on convict
Batakrushna Sahoo, failing which his sentence would be extended by one year. Advertisement The court also directed the Odisha State Legal Services Authority (OSLSA) to pay a compensation of
Rs 6 lakh to the minor girl. Advertisement The victim was a standard 3 student in the village school at the time of the incident. The accused had allegedly threatened her not to confide in
her parents about the sexual assault. The accused was convicted under Sections 65 (rape of a woman under sixteen years of age) and 331 (house trespass or housebreaking) of the BNS, and under
Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. The judge, Pragyan Paramita Roul, pronounced the judgment relying on the evidence of seven witnesses, including the
victim and the medico-legal report, said prosecution counsel Manoj Kumar Sahu. Advertisement