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Man gets 20-yr jail for sexual assault on teen
The Free Press Journal
|October 25, 2025
The special POCSO court has sentenced a 28-year-old married man, a coconut seller, to 20 years of imprisonment for manipulating a 14-year-old girl to elope with him and sexually assaulting her in 2019.
Rejecting the convict's argument that the relationship between them was consensual, the judge noted that he hid his marriage from the teen. As per the case lodged by the victim's sister with the Versova police, the teen left the house in June 2019 and she
This story is from the October 25, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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