Baripada, Jun 18 (PTI) A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district sentenced a 40-year-old man to 10 years of imprisonment on Saturday for raping an eight-year-old girl.

Baripada POCSO court judge Sumita Jena also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict, public prosecutor Abhinna Patnaik said.

The court directed the State Legal Services Authority to pay Rs 4 lakh to the rape survivor as compensation.

On June 27, 2015, the girl was alone in her house in a village in Jharpokhria police station area when the ?convict forcibly took her to a nearby pond and raped her.

The judgement was based on the medical report and the statements of the girl and 16 witnesses.