The prosecution submitted before the court that he also threatened the child to kill her if she revealed the matter to anyone.
The man abused the child at an under-construction building near her house. (Creative Commons)
A man in Kozhikode was on Monday sentenced to 62 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a mentally-challenged minor girl in 2018. The friend of the fourth-standard survivor’s bedridden father had raped her multiple times at an under-construction building near her house. Though he had threatened the child into silence. she told a relative about the abuse. The relative informed the Childline.