Man gets one year in jail for raping woman on pretext of marriage in Adilabad
An Adilabad court sentenced a farmer to one year in jail and fined him Rs. 8,000 for raping a woman under the false promise of marriage in 2017. The judge delivered the verdict after the investigation confirmed the offence
Adilabad: A local court on Wednesday sentenced a farmer to one year of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 8,000 for raping a woman under the pretext of marriage eight years ago.
The First Additional Court Judge, Dr. P. Shivaramprasad, pronounced the verdict against Kinaka Jalpath Rao of Pathaguda village in Bela mandal after finding him guilty of sexually exploiting a woman from Babejhari village in Narnoor mandal by falsely promising to marry her on June 5, 2017.
Following a complaint from the survivor, then Narnoor Sub-Inspector K. Srikanth registered a case and took up the investigation. A charge sheet was later filed, establishing Rao’s offence.
