Baripada, Jan 28 A POCSO court in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday sentenced a man to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping a 63-year-old woman in 2022.
POCSO Court Judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict, said Special Public Prosecutor Manaranjan Pattnaik.
The court also directed the District Legal Services Authority to pay Rs 2 lakh to the victim as compensation, he said.
On September 2, 2022, when the woman was returning to her house in Morada police station area after attending a funeral ceremony, the convict dragged her to a nearby bush and raped her, police said.
The woman had subsequently lodged a complaint at Morada Police Station.
