A court in Odisha has ordered a boy to clean the outdoor of a hospital for six months as he was found guilty in a theft case, a government lawyer said Saturday.<\/p>\n
Namita Das, chief judcial magistrate at Bhadrak, about 140 km from here, awarded this punishment to the 17-year-old boy (name withheld) after holding him guilty Friday of stealing about Rs 20,000 from the house of a villager in August last year.<\/p>\n
“The court awarded this punishment so that he could correct himself because it was his first crime,” lawyer Jatikanta Nayak told.<\/p>\n
Khudiram Sahu, a resident of Randia village on the outskirts of the district headquarters town of Bhadrak, had lodged a police complaint that Rs.51,000 were stolen from his house August 6, 2011.<\/p>\n
Police arrested two minor boys after recovering from their houses Rs.20,000 and Rs.12,000 respectively. The court, however, acquitted teh other boy for lack of conclusive evidence.<\/p>\n
“The court ordered him to clean the hospital outdoor complex for six months from May 1,” the lawyer said. “This is for the first time in the state that a court has given a judgment like this,” he added.<\/p>\n
Citing the judgment, the lawyer said the boy would have to report to the chief district medical officer at Bhadrak who will supervise his work and submit a periodic report to the court on the implementation of the court order. “The boy has to clean the floor of the hospital outdoor complex every day,” he said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Odisha High Court in September last year had granted bail to a 19-year-old youth accused of misbehaving with a young girl at a marriage function in the state on the condition that he would polish the shoes of devotees at a temple for three months.<\/p>\n
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