While disposing a four- year- old house burning and molestation case, Chief Judicial Magistrate [CJM], Jagatsinghpur Ramkrushna Chudhury on Saturday sentenced 14 accused persons involved in the case to undergo three years imprisonment and pay Rs 1,000 fine each.
One Madhumita Jena, a resident of Bagheipur under Balikuda area, had come under wrath of villagers over eviction from a land. The aggrieved villagers had torched the house of victim and physically assaulted the family members. later, the victim family had lodged an FIR at Balikuda police station. The police had arrested 14 villagers and forwarded them to court. The CJM court adjudicated the case and delivered the judgement basing on evidences and versions of the witnesses.