Man gets 10 years'' jail for raping minor

New Delhi, April 24

A man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Delhi court for raping a 10-year-old girl while rejecting his "lame excuse" that the minor was pressurising him to marry her.

Additional Sessions Judge Raghubir Singh convicted 24-year-old Vikas of the offence of aggravated penetrative sexual assault under provision of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. 

The court also awarded a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the girl and said, if the government deems it fit, it may give her higher compensation.

"It stands proved beyond reasonable doubt that accused established forceful physical relations with the victim child more than once between September 30, 2013 to October 2, 2013 amounting to the offence of rape," the court said. During the trial, the man claimed that he and the girl were friends she was pressurising him to marry and when he refused, he was falsely implicated in the case. — PTI