THRISSUR: A 70-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years of
rigorous imprisonment
for
sexually abusing
a 14-year-old girl.
Thrissur
fast track special court judge Bindu Sudhakaran has also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on the accused Chandran alias Velayudhan, son of Parakkulangara Ayyappan, under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (
Pocso) Act.
According to the special prosecutor for Pocso cases, advocate K P Ajayakumar, the accused had lured the survivor, who was then a school student, to his shop, and sexually assaulted her.
The prosecutor said Chandran used to invite the girl, along with her brother, to the shop. He would then send the boy to a nearby hotel after offering him money to buy parotta. The brother had a weakness for parotta, and Chandran was exploiting this to abuse the girl, the prosecutor said.
Ajayakumar said the girl went into depression and her class teacher who noticed it, talked with her and the girl opened up about the ordeal she was going through. It was the teacher who then alerted Childline officials.
Chandran was arrested by Pazhayannur police in 2016, after investigations.
The accused will have to undergo another six months of rigorous imprisonment if he failed to remit the fine.
The prosecution had arranged 15 witnesses, 19 documents and five material objects in the case.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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