Visakhapatnam: A court in Visakhapatnam has sentenced Ch Jagadeeswara Rao (32) to rigorous life imprisonment for raping a Dalit woman under the false pretext of marriage. The court also fined him Rs 2.5 lakh on the convict.
The court also sentenced Ch Prabhavati to six months sentence and slapped a fine for insulting the victim woman on caste basis and the court also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on P Triveni, a relative of Jagadeeswara Rao, for threatening the victim woman over phone.
The police said Jagadeeswara Rao repeatedly sexually assaulted the 22-year-old woman with false pretext of marriage. Based on the complaint, the MR Peta police registered a case in 2019 and arrested Rao. After regular trials, the court sentenced Rao and the government to pay Rs two lakh as compensation to the victim woman. TNN
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