Udupi: Youth gets three years in jail for sexually harassing minor girl

Udupi district additional and sessions POCSO fast track court has convicted and sentenced a 26-year-old youth to three years of rigorous imprisonment for outraging the modesty and sexually harassing a seven-year-old girl in Udupi in January 2016.

In a judgment on Wednesday, the Judge of the court, Yermal Kalpana, found the accused, Pramod (26), a native of Jadkal, guilty of the offense and sentenced him to three years in jail for the POSCO offense, one year for the IPC offense and one year for posing death threat. He has been ordered to pay a fine of Rs 10,000.

The court also asked the government to pay compensation of Rs 25,000 to the girl.

It is said that Pramod, a coolie, had forcibly entered the house of the girl when she was with her brother. Later, he waited for her brother to go out of the house and tried to sexually assault her.

The girl shouted for help, Pramod noticed the mother and brother of the girl coming towards the house and escaped after posing death threats to the girl and her family members.

A case in this regard was filed in Shankaranarayana police station and was later shifted to the women’s police station in Kundapur.