Man gets 20 year jail term for raping eight year old girl in Odisha

KENDRAPARA: The additional district judge-cum-special judge (POCSO), Kendrapara on Thursday sentenced a man to 20 years of imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old dalit girl in Derabish area of the district seven years back.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict, identified as 37-year-old Mihir Kumar Singh. Failure to pay the fine would result in additional jail term of one year. The victim was studying in Class-II at the time of the incident.

On May 24, 2018, the girl’s mother filed a complaint in Derabish police station alleging her daughter was playing in the village field when Singh forcibly took her to a house and raped her.