Baripada (Odisha), Jan 8 (PTI) A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl in 2019.

Mayurbhanj district POCSO court special judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on convict Chaitan Prasad Singh, special public prosecutor Manoranjan Pattnaik said.

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"The court also directed the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to the victim," he said.

On January 1, 2019, when the girl went to take a bath in Sono river near her village, Singh raped her. After receiving a complaint, Udala police registered a case under the POCSO Act and arrested Singh, Pattnaik added.

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