A court in Nellore (a city in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) has sentenced Valluru Penchalayya to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 98-year-old bedridden woman in 2017, when he was 19 years old. The Eighth Additional District and Sessions Court delivered the verdict on 22 September 2026, nearly nine years after the assault, which came to light when the victim's family noticed a deterioration in her health and took her to hospital, where doctors alerted police. Penchalayya was also convicted of criminal intimidation and handed a concurrent seven-year term, meaning he will serve the longer sentence of 10 years.