A court in Odisha’s Jagatsingpur district on Monday sentenced two men, including an army jawan, to 14 years in jail for throwing acid on a women college student 13 years ago after she refused one of their marriage proposals.
Assistant Sessions (Women’s Court) Judge Rasmita Sahu also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on each of the two convicts.
Santosh Kumar Vedant alias Bapi and Biswajit Dalsinghe alias Anil threw acid on the woman when she was returning home along with her brother after attending college on April 18, 2009 in a village under Tirtol police station area.
The main accused Vedanta, an army jawan and a resident of Bhadrak district, threw acid on her after she refused his marriage proposal.
He was arrested in Kolkata in 2017, almost eight years after the attack.
The case was closed in 2012 due to a lack of evidence. The Jagatsingpur police, however, sought permission to reopen it after the then SP JN Pankaj took cognizance of the case from the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate in 2017.
