Chaibasa (Jharkhand): Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district Court has sentenced a man to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping two minor girls along with others around seven years ago.
The accused was identified as Rajendra Mahato, a resident of Saitopa village under the Toklo Police Station limits.
The Court of District and Session Judge-I on Wednesday ordered the sentence under section 376 (D) IPC to the accused and fined him Rs 25,000.
The other accused persons in the case had already been sentenced by the court.
According to the case that had been registered at the Chakradharpur Police Station, the girls were raped when they were returning home on the evening of August 29 in 2016.
During the investigation, Mahato was forwarded to judicial custody after evidence was gathered scientifically against him, a police officer said.
With inputs from PTI