10-year-old girl raped in Kerala for two years, convict gets 142 years in jail, fined Rs 5 lakh
A local court in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta sentenced a man to rigorous imprisonment for 142 years for raping a minor. A 41-year-old man raped a minor girl for two years. A release issued by the district police said that Justice Jayakumar John of Pathanamthitta Additional District and Sessions Court sentenced Anandan PR to 142 years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on him. This is the maximum punishment awarded to an accused in the POCSO case in the district, the release said.
According to the police release, however, the convict will have to serve a total jail term of 60 years. The convict is a relative of the 10-year-old victim. He was convicted under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code. The court said that the accused sexually abused the girl child during 2019-2021.
30 years in prison for raping step daughter
The convict committed the incident when he was staying at the girl’s house. Earlier in August, a fast track court in Kerala sentenced a man to a total of 30 years in prison for several offenses under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO) in the rape case of a minor step-daughter.
Special Public Prosecutor SS Sanesh had told that in 2018, a 32-year-old man raped his minor step-daughter at home in the absence of her mother in Idukki district. The SPP said that the court convicted the accused on the basis of the statement of the victim and her younger sister who witnessed the incident. The victim’s mother had turned hostile during the trial.
