Muzaffarnagar (UP): A special court in Uttar
Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district today sentenced a youth to 10
years imprisonment for sodomising a four-year-old child seven
months ago.
Additional District Sessions Judge Virender Kumar also
imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the accused, Mohit Kumar
(20), after holding him guilty under Section 5 of the
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.
According to prosecution lawyer Pushpender Malik, Mohit
abducted a four-year-old boy and sexually assaulted him in a
school in Bhuwapur village in the district on April 20 this
year.
This is the first time in the district that an accused
has been convicted under the Pocso Act, Malik claimed.
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