Hyderabad, April 9 --  A city court has sentenced a 40-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a woman in her home and threatening to kill her if she reported the crime, a case that dates back to 2018.

The 13th Additional District and Sessions Court at LB Nagar, presided over by Judge M Vani, convicted Somashila Mahender of NTR Nagar, Mailardevpally, under sections 376 (custodial rape and aggravated sexual offence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and imposed a fine of Rs 5,100. 

The court also awarded compensation of Rs 3 lakh to the survivor.

According to the prosecution, Mahender had, on June 15, 2018, entered the complainant's house on the pretext of asking for food...