A POCSO court here on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a person for raping and murdering a minor girl last year.
The convict was identified as Kalia Manna alias Laba.
According to reports, Laba had raped and murdered the girl in Gadaharishpur village under the Erasama police limits in the district on March 21 last year. Acting on a complaint lodged by the family members of the deceased, police had arrested Laba and forwarded him to court.
Adjudicating the case, the court pronounced capital punishment for Laba.
A special POCSO court on Tuesday awarded a 20-year jail term each to six persons for gang-raping a minor girl in the Barbil area of Keonjhar district in 2015.
The Keonjhar ADJ POCSO Court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each on the six persons after convicting them in the case.
In 2015, the minor girl was kidnapped by the accused while she was on her way home from the village market. They took her to a cashew forest and raped her one after another.
