The court announced the punishment after it pronounced, on Tuesday, the first-time MLA guilty of raping a 15-year-old in 2014 under sections 376 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
He told Shakya that the SOS came through the police radio communication system, the only way to communicate with the villagers living in the remote village.Makachua, 90 nautical miles from Indonesia, is a far-flung tribal island and it takes nearly 4-5 hours to reach there by a speed boat from Cambell Bay. Similar situations in any city or town could have been handled easily with state-of-the-art healthcare facilities.