Summary:
more-inA Delhi court has sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a factory. The man then gagged and raped her twice and left her in the factory room after wrapping her in a blanket. Due to suffocation, she fell unconscious and was rescued the next morning by her family members and the police. The court convicted and sentenced Chhedi Paswan, saying “the prosecution has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt.” However, the court took a lenient view and awarded the minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment to him. During investigation, the police recovered the girl from the factory in front of her house..