Aska: A local court Saturday sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment after convicting him in the 2011 rape case of a five-year old minor in Ganjam district.
The convicted man was identified as Runa Das alias Tripathy, a resident of Buguda police limits in the district. The additional district and sessions judge Prabir Kumar Choudhury also slapped a penalty of 10,000 on the convict, apart from the punishment. The convict has to undergo an additional four months of rigorous imprisonment if failed to pay the penalty.
The judge passed the order after examining the statements of 13 witnesses in the case and the police chargesheet, public prosecutor Sudhanshu Kumar Panda and associate Surya Prakash Rao said.
The incident occurred when the minor was playing in front of her house, January 17, 2011. Runa approached the minor and took her inside a house and raped her.
The matter came up before the police after the survivor’s father lodged an FIR at Buguda Police Station. The then Buguda police station IIC Jagannath Mallick conducted a probe and arrested Runa for the offence.
PNN