Jajpur (Odisha), Aug 5: A local court here Thursday awarded 10-year brutal imprisonment to a man after convicting him of rape of a minor girl in Odisha’s Jajpur region six years ago. Jajpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Gyanendra Barik pronounced the decision and sentenced Amaresh Panda (30) of Jayasingada village under Section 376 (2) and Section 511 of the IPC.
The court also levied a fine of Rs 20,000 on Panda, the government pleader said, adding, the judgment was passed on the basis of 15 witnesses probed during the trial. Panda had forcibly taken the 13-year-old girl to an incomplete building in the village and raped her in 2015, according to the prosecution.
