Summary:
LUDHIANA: A local court has sentenced a labourer to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for unnatural sex with a minor boy in Meherban. During the trial of the case, the accused pleaded innocence and false implication. The court ordered that out of the fine, Rs1 lakh would be given as compensation to the survivor.On 23 October 2015, Meherban police had booked a 22-year-old accused under Section 377 IPC (unnatural offences) and Section 4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences ( Pocso ) Act 2012 for unnatural sex with a nine-year-old boy. The court of additional sessions judge Sonia Kinra also imposed a fine of Rs1,10,000 on the convict, and in default of payment of fine, he will have to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months. The father then enquired about the act from his son and son’s friend, and came to know that the accused had committed the unnatural act with his son.After lodging a case against the accused, police presented a chargesheet against him in the court of law..