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Surat: A local court on Saturday awarded a 10-year jail term to a 20-year-old youth who was convicted of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old school girl at a farm in Limbayat in March 2016. Seeing the girl’s father, Bhatti escaped from the spot. Police later lodged a complaint of kidnap and rape against Bhatti and arrested him. Later, after the girl failed to return home till late in the evening, her father went out to search and reached near Bhatti’s residence where he saw his daughter come down the stairs. The accused took the minor to a nearby farmland where he raped her.Bhatti was also accused of stalking the girl when she went to her school and also while returning home..