GHAZIABAD: A 24-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a four-year-old girl in Tronica City in 2015. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on the convict, identified as Rahul Sharma.The crime was first reported on January 1, 2015. The girl’s father, a driver, in his complaint to the police, had stated that he had given shelter to a neighbour’s family who was renovating their house. The neighbour moved into their house with his two sons and a wife.Special district government counsel (POCSO Act), Ranveer Singh Dagar, said, “Around 2pm on January 1, 2015, the 20-year-old Rahul, the neighbour’s son, took the four-year-old girl to a room on the upper floor of the house and raped her. After the girl fell unconscious, Rahul fled the house through terrace.Later, the girl’s mother found her lying in a pool of blood. The woman had also found a blood-stained shirt lying nearby which was used by Rahul to wipe off the blood from the girl. The girl’s father could not lodge the FIR immediately as Rahul’s father and his brothers had mounted pressure on him and dissuaded him from lodging the complaint. However, he finally lodged the complaint at Tronica police station against the accused on June 16, 2015, after a delay of six months.“An FIR was subsequently registered against Rahul for rape and under the relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences. He was soon arrested and since then has been imprisoned at the Dasna jail. All his bail applications were rejected,” Dagar said. The case was heard in the court of Special judge (POCSO cases) Vandana Singh and after going through the evidence, she found Rahul guilty of the crime.

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