A local court on Tuesday convicted a man of kidnapping and raping a minor girl in an eight-year-old case and sentenced him to 10 years in prison, a lawyer said. Special judge Anjali Kumar Singh of Muzaffarnagar’s POCSO court convicted Pappu of kidnapping and rape of the 17-year-old girl and imposed a fine of Rs 27,000 on him.

Government advocate Vinay Kumar Arora said that on April 18, 2016, Pappu abducted the minor from her house in a village of Ratanpuri police station area and raped her. The police registered a case against the accused under sections of the Protection of Children from Kidnapping, Rape and Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and filed a charge sheet.

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