Bokaro: A special Pocso court here on Friday sentenced a man to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a 12-year-old girl living in his neighbourhood.
The rape survivor is a student of Class VI.
Special Pocso-cum-additional district judge-1 Janardan Singh held the accused, Biswanath Bhuiya (26), guilty under Section 6 of the Pocso Act (committing aggravated penetrative sexual assault) and sentenced him to 30 years’ RI.
The judge also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on Bhuiya.
“The case was filed by the girl’s father with the Bermo women’s police station on December 18 last year,” special public prosecutor S K Jha said.
Jha said the crime took place at 2.30 pm on December 18 in Dhori forest where the girl had gone to collect firewood along with the wife of the accused.
They were separately picking firewood when Bhuiya came and grabbed the girl.
She resisted, but he overpowered and raped her there.
He also threatened to kill her if she tells anyone about the incident.
After returning home, the girl narrated her ordeal to her mother and when her father returned home from work in the evening, they went to the women’s police station and lodged a complaint against Bhuiya.