Bhadrak, Sept 7: Yesterday a special track court granted 10 years of imprisonment to a rapist and three years jail term with Rs 5000 fine to other six convicts of a dowry and rape case in Odisha here.
A newly married woman belonging to the Rameswar village under Dhamnagar police limits here was allegedly raped by his brother-in-law, Haria Gochayat after repeated torture by the in-laws. Police had arrested the seven persons on April 5, 2014.
Hearing the case, Bhadrak Special Track Court judge Lalita Manjari Patnaik sentenced Gochayat to 10 years of imprisonment under IPC section 376 and three years jail to six in-laws of the woman with a fine Rs 5000 under IPC section 498 (a) yesterday. The in-laws are Nirodh, Raju, Abhimanyu, Makar, Damini, and Basant.
Government advocate Basant Kumar Swain was proceeding the case.
