Agartala, March 7 -- The Dhalai District and Sessions Court on Friday sentenced a middle-aged man to 20 years of imprisonment for raping a minor girl two and half years ago under Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act and slapped fine of Rs 10, 000.
Additional Public Prosecutor of the case Indu Bhushan Deb said the convict Chandan Mali of Choto Surma area under Kamalpur police station in the morning of September 2022 entered a nearby house where the minor girl was alone. He raped her and left her injured.
The mother of the minor, who was in a neighboring house, rushed back hearing her daughter's screams and found Chandan Mali was fleeing from the scene. The family registered a case against the accused and poli...