Man gets 10-yr RI for raping teen, making her pregnant

TNN / Oct 22, 2024, 04:26 IST

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Man gets 10-yr RI for raping teen, making her pregnant

Sambalpur: The Pocso court in Sambalpur on Monday sentenced a 30-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 16-year-old girl, making her pregnant and then killing the newborn.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the convict. If he defaults, he would have undergo imprisonment for another year. The court also sentenced a 35-year-old friend of the convict to five years in jail for throwing the baby’s body in a drain and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000.If he fails to pay the fine, he would have to undergo imprisonment for another six months.
Special public prosecutor Santosh Panda said the incident took place in 2014. The convict maintained a physical relationship with the girl promising to marry her. However, when the 16-year-old girl became pregnant, he refused to marry her, citing he had an unmarried elder brother. When the pregnancy became visible, he called her to a nearby chowk and took her to a health facility to abort the child. Doctors there said she was eight months’ pregnant and it was impossible to abort the baby.
He then took her to another private clinic, where she delivered the baby. He killed the newborn and the other convict threw the body in a drain. The girl then shared her ordeal with her parents, following which her father lodged a police complaint.
Special judge Abhilash Senapati pronounced the sentences after hearing depositions of 18 witnesses.

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