Court Sentences 43-Year-Old To Life Imprisonment For Kidnapping, Raping Girl In '22

A special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) court has sentenced a 43-year-old man from Ghatkopar to life imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 7-year-old girl while she was walking back home from a local shop in April 2022.

- Revu Suresh

MUMBAI:

According to the prosecution, the man, who was a stranger to the girl, kidnapped her in 2022. He took her near a forested area behind a school, raped, and threatened her. A woman outside the forest noticed the girl and contacted her mother, asking her to retrieve her daughter from the school premises. The mother filed a complaint with the Ghatkopar police, who registered a case against the accused. The police traced the accused, identified as a driver by profession, and arrested him for kidnapping and raping the child.