KOLKATA: In a five-year-old case, a court in Bankura district of West Bengal, on Tuesday, sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl and impregnating her.
The judgment was announced after the district court recorded the testimony of a total of 12 people during the hearing, which continued for the last five years.
At the same time, the district court also took into account the DNA report of the victim's child, which matched the DNA of the accused.
As the case goes, a rickshaw puller by profession, Basu Kalindi raped the minor daughter of a fellow rickshaw owner in Bankura district in 2020.
Later, the accused blackmailed the minor student of class 10 at that time and raped her for consecutive days.
The minor had initially concealed the matter from her parents because of fear and also the apprehensions about social stigma.
However, the matter became known after she conceived a child.