Additional District Judge (ADJ)-cum-Special Judge MR Dora on Tuesday sentenced a speech-impaired person to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine amount of Rs 10,000 in a rape case.
The 27-year-old convict had forcibly raped an 8- year-old fellow village girl a couple of times in April 2016 under Marshaghai police station.
According to public prosecutor of ADJ Court MK Sahu, speech-impaired Baguli Behera on April 7, 2016 evening, allegedly had raped the minor girl forcibly in a lonely place ,after taking her from the village road and concealing the minor girl ’s mouth in a cloth ,while the victim was going to attend the Kalas buda function organised on the occasion of Astaprahari (religious function) at the village. The accused had later threatened the girl, who was studying in Class-IV, to face dire consequences if she disclosed the matter to her family members.
Even, on April 9, 2016 evening, Behera once again had managed to rape the girl in front of her younger sister ,after assaulting her sister.The girl later had left food and was suffering from pain on her lower abdomen.
As a result, when the family members asked the minor girl, she disclosed the matter to her parents. The girl’s father had lodged an FIR at the Marshaghai police station soon.