Mysuru: The 7th Additional District and Sessions Court, has sentenced a 32-year-old man to seven years imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 15,000 for raping a minor girl in 2012. The person who has been sentenced has been identified as Raju, a resident of Kallahalli hamlet in Sargur taluk.
On Mar. 7, 2012, the 14-year-old girl also of Kallahalli village had come to Kalammathayi Jathre at Hegganuru village without informing her parents. The girl’s mother, who came in search of her, found her there and began to thrash her. Raju, who saw the girl being beaten by her mother, intervened and told the girl’s mother that he would bring her to the village on his bike.
