Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 17 (ANI): A POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli convicted a man of raping a six-year-old girl and awarded the convict 25 years' imprisonment in a five-year-old case.

Special judge (POCSO) Rajendra Prasad on Friday convicted Jitendra, a resident of Ghazipur district, of raping a minor girl and awarded him 25 years of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000. "The convict will undergo additional imprisonment of two years for the default of payment of fine," the court said.

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The case pertains to February 22, 2017. On behalf of the prosecution, special advocates Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Avdhesh Narayana Singh and Ramakant Upadhyay said that the victim's mother, a resident of a village under Chakia Police Station, alleged that on the day of the incident, around 4:00 pm, Jitendra, a known to the family, stayed in their house raped her then six-year-old daughter while she (mother) had gone to neighbour's house.

"On reaching home late at night around 1:00, she (mother) found that her daughter was missing and after searching her for hours, she found her daughter sobbing heavily near a field, which was around 150 metres away from the house," counsel quoted the victim's mother as saying. (ANI)

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