A special court in Odisha’s Kendrapara district on Tuesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a woman.
The judge of additional ad-hoc fast track special court, Tribikram Keshari Chinara, sentenced Basudev Mallick, after he was found guilty of raping the 35-year-old woman at a village in Rajnagar area in 2020.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the convict, failing which he will have to remain in jail for another year, public prosecutor Sanjay Jena said.
A total of 14 witnesses had deposed before the court in the case, Jena added.
