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The court, however, sentenced Jori for the POCSO offence only.The judge favoured a lenient punishment as the accused and the girl were in love. She had left home on the evening of August 12, 2015, and accompanied the accused for the next eight days to various places, till they were apprehended by the police on August 13. Jori has no parents and is the sole earning member of his family and besides, he had no criminal antecedents, the court held.Additional public prosecutor Pramod Bombatkar told TOI, “We examined five witnesses, including the girl, her father and the doctors who examined her. PUNE: A sessions court in the city sentenced a 25-year-old man to seven years rigorous imprisonment on Monday for luring a minor girl into a physical relationship under on the pretext of marriage in August 2015.The court, however, has acquitted the Khilarewadi resident of the charges of kidnapping and sex trafficking (IPS section 66A — procuration of minor girl).The girl (name withheld), 17 years and eight months old at the time of the offence, was romantically involved with the accused. We were also able to prove the documentary evidence including the seizure panchanama related to the recovery of clothes from a room in Alandi where the girl and the accused had stayed, her school-leaving certificate and the statement she had recorded under Section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure, narrating the incident before a magistrate, and other documents.”.