Rapist gets 20 years imprisonment

By Akshaya Rout

Jajpur, April 16 : The additional  district  session judge  cum  special judge   Jajpur  Road   has sentenced a 42  year old man  for  20  years of imprisonment  on  Saturday    for gang- raping  an 18  year old  girl  three  years back   in a village   under   Sukinda   police station.

The court   also imposed a fine of  fifty    thousand  rupees  on the  convict  and   failure to pay which would result in his   sentence being increased by three months .

Pronouncing the verdict in the sensational case, the   additional district  session judge Manas Kumar Panda  convicted  Sabyasachi Behera   to 20  years of imprisonment under sections -376  of Indian Penal Code   on the charges of gang-raping  the girl on  21th April 2019  along with another miscreant   .

The  mother    of the victim girl filed an FIR in  Sukinda   police station on 22nd   November   2019 and alleged that the convict and another person gang-raped her daughter.

 Acting on the FIR, police arrested the convict. But another accused has been evading the police net for a long time.

10  witnesses  including the victim girl deposed in this case in the court. After relying on the evidence of the victim girl and others and a medical report, the court convicted the accused to  20 years of imprisonment, said Rajat Rout,  the  special public prosecutor of the court.