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How Magistrate's confusion landed student 15-year jail sentence

There was an error resulting in a conviction. [iStockphoto]

If a magistrate had not confused the numbers in his judgment, a schoolboy who was accused of rape would not have stepped into a prison in his life.

The boy loathes the day the Chief Magistrate made a grave error by confusing numbers between him and his classmate who was to be jailed.

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