Youth sentenced to jail for 12 yrs 6 months on charge of rape

The District Court, Udayapur, has sent a 15-year-old boy of Katari Municipality-5 in the district to 12 years and six months in jail on a charge of raping a 4-year-old girl.

Information Officer of the court Raj Kumar Acharya said district Judge Deepak Khanal on Wednesday issued an order for the same.

According to the District Court, Udayapur,  another boy of 11 years involved in the same rape charge got an exemption to other punishment after remaining in jail during the time of investigations.

The two boys had raped the girl on March 19. The relatives of the girl had lodged a case at the police after the crime and the police had kept the boys in a reform centre after lodging the case on rape. Acharya said that the convict will be kept in a reform centre in Biratnagar until he is 18 years and will be sent to the prison-house thereafter.