The court said that he will have to serve a total jail term of 60 years. (Representative)
Pathanamthitta (Kerala):
A local court in Kerala on Friday sentenced a 41-year-old man to 142 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a minor girl for two years.
A release issued by the district police on Friday said that Pathanamthitta Additional District and Sessions Court (Principal POCSO) Judge Jayakumar John sentenced Anandan PR to 142 years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the convict. This is the record sentence awarded to an accused in the POCSO case in the district, the release said.
However, he will have to serve a total jail term of 60 years, the release said.
The man, who is a relative of the 10-year-old survivor, was convicted under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and IPC section 506 (criminal intimidation).
The court said that the accused mercilessly sexually assaulted the girl child during 2019-2021.
The release said that he committed the crime while living with the family.
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