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A 56-year-old teacher successful Thiruvananthapuram was connected Saturday (January 31, 2026) sentenced to a full of 161 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing a ten-year-old autistic boy.
The accused, Santhosh Kumar of Powdikonam, was sentenced by the Fast Track Special Court (POCSO), Thiruvananthapuram, connected aggregate counts nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for a full of 161 years, according to the bid issued by Special Judge Anju Meera Birla.
Since the sentences volition tally concurrently, helium volition person to service lone 20 years. Mr. Santhosh Kumar has besides been ordered to wage ₹87,000 successful fine, failing which helium volition person to acquisition an further eight-and-a-half-years of imprisonment.
Special nationalist authoritative R.S. Vijay Mohan appeared for the prosecution.
The incidental pertaining to the lawsuit took spot successful July 2019. The accused was a teacher successful the schoolhouse attended by the victim. The lawsuit against him was that helium had exploited the child’s information to sexually maltreatment him.
Although the child’s parent noticed a alteration successful him, the second could not intelligibly explicate what had happened. She had besides noticed bruises connected his body. However, helium had written down his acquisition successful his notebook. Subsequently, much details came retired aft the child’s code therapist interacted with him. Since the deficiency of clarity persisted, a three-member sheet including a doc from Mental Health Centre was constituted and the constabulary recorded the child’s connection afresh. The accused had abused the kid successful the bath of the school.
Assistant Commissioner (Narcotics Cell) Sheen Tharayil, Sreekaryam Inspector Abhilash David and SI R. Biju investigated the case.
