A local court in Odisha convicted a school teacher and sentenced him to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl.
The special judge of POCSO court Balasore, Ranjan Kumar Sutar, also slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on the convict, failing which he will undergo another two-year jail term.
The court directed Balasore district legal service authority to pay a compensation amount of Rs 4 lakh to the victim.
The convict, 59, a resident of Rampur village, had on Novemver 12, 2019 lured the 11-year-old girl with chocolates and raped her at his house, according to the public prosecutor.
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