Boy sentenced to 20-yr jail for raping minor

PTI

Updated At : 12:30 PM Feb 27, 2022 IST

Unlock Exclusive Insights with The Tribune Premium

Take your experience further with Premium access. Thought-provoking Opinions, Expert Analysis, In-depth Insights and other Member Only Benefits

Yearly Premium ₹999 ₹349/Year

Yearly Premium $49 $24.99/Year

Mathura, February 26

A local court on Saturday sentenced a boy to 20-year imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1 lakh, convicting him for raping a child in the Prem Nagar area of the district.

As per the judgment, the convict was awarded a 20-year sentence under the POCSO Act, and another 10 years under the Section 376 of the IPC, both of which would run concurrently.

“The period for which the convict was in jail during the trial would be adjusted in the final sentence,” additional district counsel Subhash Chandra Chaturvedi said.

The incident happened on February 5, 2018, when Suraj, the convict, raped a five-year-old girl in his neighbourhood while her mother was away, he added.

The girl’s mother and her grandmother had left the child under the care of Suraj and his sister-in-law, he said. —

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees.

The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the newspaper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term.

The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

Remembering Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia

Designed and developed by : SORTD

Unlock Exclusive Insights with The Tribune Premium

Suggested Articles