Jaipur, Feb 4 (PTI) A special court here has sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl.

Special Judge, POCSO Court, Tara Agrawal, also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Shivam Yadav (22) after finding him guilty in the October 2020 case, Special Public Prosecutor Rakesh Mehrishi said.

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Yadav had lured the girl by offering her a chocolate and after she ate it, she became unconscious. He took her to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh where he forcibly made physical relations for eight months, Mehrishi said.

He said a police complaint was lodged by her parents who suspected Yadav, who lived in their neighbourhood, to be the perpetrator.

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