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The Special Court for the proceedings of cases registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act successful Coimbatore connected Thursday sentenced a antheral to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting his relative’s girl aged 2 successful 2022.
Special tribunal justice T. Bagavathiammal awarded the punishment to a 38-year-old antheral hailing from a spot adjacent Kavundampalayam.
The constabulary stated that the man, a regular wage labourer, utilized to sojourn the location of the subsister miss and instrumentality her to his residence. On June 28, 2022, helium took the miss to his location and sexually assaulted her. The girl’s parent lodged a ailment astatine the All Women Police Station, Thudiyalur, the adjacent day, pursuing which the antheral was arrested.
The proceedings tribunal delivered the verdict successful the lawsuit connected Thursday and slapped a good of ₹10,000 connected him successful summation to the jailhouse term. The tribunal besides ordered the State to wage a compensation of ₹5 lakh to the survivor.
