Special Additional Sessions Judge Ajanta Sadangi on Saturday convicted a 50-year-old rape accused and sentenced him to 10 years’ RI along
with Rs 5,000 fine, in default to undergo three months’ more imprisonment.
Gobinda Das of Totapal village had committed the offence against a six-year-old girl on March 2, 2017.
He used to earn his livelihood by singing hymns of Go d in villages.
While the girl had gone to her great grandmother’s house at Kuanarpur, Das followed her and,
getting an opportunity, made sexual assault on her.
Special Public Prosecutor Pranab Panda said, “This case was
marked as a Red Flag case by the Crime Branch and speedy trial was
undertaken by the court.
With about eight months of occurrence of the
offence, the verdict was
pronounced.”