A Kerala court on Friday convicted and sentenced a man from Madhya Pradesh to a cumulative 33 years of imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl who hailed from West Bengal, at Poopara in this hilly district of the state.
Devikulam Fast Track Special Court (POCSO) judge Johnson M I sentenced 27-year-old Khemsing Aiyam to varying jail terms for offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the IPC for a total of 33 years, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Smiju K Das said However, the man will serve only 20 years in prison as the sentences have to be served concurrently and 20 years was the highest jail term pronounced by the judge, the SPP said.