Man gets 10-year jail for kidnapping, raping infant

Delhi's Tis Hazari court has awarded a ten-year jail sentence to a man for abducting and rapping one and six-month-old girl in 2019.

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Special judge (POCSO) Manoj Jain (II) awarded an imprisonment of 10 years under section 6 of POCSO for rapping the minor and also imposed a fine of Rs 1000.

Additionally, he has also been sentenced to a term of three years under section 363 of IPC for the offence of kidnapping the minor. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 1000.

The prosecution had prayed for the maximum prescribed sentence for the convict, submitting that the convict had committed a heinous offence against a minor victim, a girl aged about one and a half years.

It was further argued that the accused does not deserve any leniency from the Court and should be punished severely to send a strong message to society.