Hyderabad, April 19 -- Two men in Telangana were awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in two separate cases for raping minor girls. Along with awarding serious punishments to the culprits, the courts also delivered compensations to the victims.

First case

In the first case, a 29-year-old man from Nalgonda was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the first additional district judge, B Tirupathi, for kidnapping and repeatedly raping his minor niece.

The court also ordered the convict to pay a compensation of 10 lakh to the survivor, along with a fine of Rs 3,000 and an additional Rs 50,000 to the survivor.

The case was registered in Dindi in June 2022, where the accused kidnapped the victim, who was studying in class XI, from her hom...