PATNA: A court here on Monday sentenced a man to 10 years
imprisonment for abducting and raping a
minor girl in 2013.
Special Judge of a POCSO court
Ravindra Nath Tripathi convicted
Ranjit Yadav under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for abduction and rape of a minor girl.
The court sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000.
The court also sentenced a man named Imtiyaz to five-year's imprisonment for helping Yadav in the abduction of the minor girl.
It imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on Imtiyaz.
The minor girl, was abducted by Yadav and Imtiyaz, while she was on her way to Masud Bigaha village in Patna district on August 26, 2013, according to the FIR.
She was then raped for around a month, it said.
