Odisha: POCSO court sentences 6 youths to 20 years’ RI for raping minorA POCSO court in Ganjam, Odisha, sentenced six men to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment and fines for gang-raping a 17-year-old girl. Additional District Judge-cum-POCSO court judge Pranati Pattnaik also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of the convicts, aged between 20 and 27 years, he added. The court also directed the district legal services authorities to pay Rs 15 lakh to the survivor under the victim compensation scheme. She later lodged a complaint at Baidyanathpur police station on May 5, following which a case under the POCSO Act was registered. The convicts were in jail since their arrest, as the court had rejected their bail pleas earlier, they said.