Man gets 7-year jail for kidnapping daughter

A local court has sentenced Akash (22), a UP native, to seven-year rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and abandoning his 11-month-old daughter Ishika in 2022.

The case was registered on a complaint filed by the child’s mother, Rinki. The accused, a resident of Trivedi Camp village, Mubarakpur, was convicted on October 30.

She had alleged that her husband took away the child. Despite extensive search, the police could not find the child’s body. However, on the basis of CCTV footage and the accused’s confession, the court convicted him. Atul Kasana, Sessions Judge, Mohali, in his order, held: “The period already undergone by the convict in custody in this case be set off against the substantive sentence imposed upon him.”