Mumbai: Octogenarian woman and husband get sentenced to jail for raping 4-year-old neighbourhood girl
In a rare case of a woman getting convicted of rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), a special court under the POCSO Act on Thursday sentenced an 81-year-old woman and her 87-year-old husband to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for penetrating with their finger, a four-year-old child of their building in 2013.
Special POCSO judge Rekha N. Pandhare also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each on the elderly couple to be paid as compensation to the child. The duo were found guilty under Sec 6 of the POCSO Act for aggravated penetrative sexual assault.
Kamal Hossain Talukdar, Senior Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 09 Feb 2021 01:43 PM BdST
Updated: 09 Feb 2021 01:43 PM BdST
An octogenarian couple received their COVID vaccine jabs as Bangladesh entered the third day of nationwide immunisation. );
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Abdul Matin, who crossed 89, and Raushan Ara, 81, from Rampura arrived at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday morning and later departed with a sigh of relief.
“Getting vaccinated is good. Everyone should take the shots, Matin told bdnews24.com.
The couple were accompanied by their daughter Faria Bushra Matin at the vaccination centre. They haven’t been infected with the coronavirus. That’s a relief. They are mentally agile for their age. Both of them are doing fine after receiving the shots,” Faria said.