India News | UP: Man Gets 25-year Jail for Raping Minor
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A court here on Thursday sentenced a man to 25-year imprisonment for raping a six-year-old girl.
Muzaffarnagar (UP), Sep 24 (PTI) A court here on Thursday sentenced a man to 25-year imprisonment for raping a six-year-old girl.
The POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court judge, Sanjeev Kumar Tiwari, also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the accused, Sajid (23), after holding him guilty under section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act.
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According to the prosecution lawyer, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, three years ago the accused took the minor to a vacant house in Kookda village on the pretext of giving her money for buying toffees and allegedly raped her.
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