Hyderabad: Man gets 10-year jail in sodomy case

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 16,000 on the convict and ordered Rs 5 lakh compensation to the victim

Hyderabad: A local court on Thursday sentenced a man to undergo rigourous imprisonment for a period of 10 years in the sodomy case of a minor boy reported in Saroornagar in 2018.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 16,000 on the convict and ordered Rs 5 lakh compensation to the victim.

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The convict Mohd Abdul Majid (23), a house keeping staff at a government residential hostel, had overpowered and sodomised the boy in the hostel.

The Saroornagar police booked a case and subsequently arrested Majid.