Elderly tutor sentenced to 10 years in 2017 child rape case

A Hyderabad court has sentenced 70-year-old tuition teacher D. Subramanyeshwara Rao to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl in Rajendranagar in 2017.

Hyderabad: A local court on Friday sentenced an elderly man to ten years rigorous imprisonment in the rape case of a minor girl reported in Rajendranagar in 2017. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.

The convict, D Subramanyeshwara Rao (70), a tuition teacher had raped the 12-year-old girl, who lived in the same apartment and had visited him to take tuition classes.

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Based on the complaint from the girl’s mother, the Rajendranagar police booked a case and arrested Rao.

The court also awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation to the girl.