Hosdurg Fast Track Special Court sentenced a volleyball coach to 36 years imprisonment and Rs 1 lakh fine for sexually abusing a minor boy. Pariyaram native PV Balan (68) will have to undergo an additional imprisonment of 11 months if he refrained from paying the fine amount.
A jail term of 10 years and fine of Rs 30,000 was awarded for unnatural offence, 26 years imprisonment and Rs 70,000 fine for a POCSO Act. The convict has to serve the sentences concurrently.
The incident pertaining to the case happened in December 2018. The coach, who took the 12-year-old boy to see the state youth volleyball championship, raped the boy from a lodge in Cherupuzha.
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