TSR jawan, bro get 20 yrs in jail for raping teen multiple times

Agartala: A Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawan and his elder brother were sentenced to 20 years in jail by a special court in Dharmanagar on Tuesday for raping a 14-year-old girl multiple times, following which she got pregnant. The court of special POCSO judge Angshuman Debbarma also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on each of the acccused. The girl was returning home from school, when she stopped at the house of the accused in her neighbourhood for a glass of water. At that time, the elder brother took her to a room and raped her, according to the prosecution.
The younger brother, a TSR jawan, saw it and later blackmailed the girl and raped her multiple times, public persecutor Sudharsan Sharma said. The girl eventually became pregnant and gave birth to a child, he said. “Around a year after sexual exploitation, she lodged an FIR against the two brothers at the women’s police station on February 12, 2022,” Sharma said. PTI