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Man gets 7 years in jail

CHANDIGARH: The court of Additional District and Session Anshu Shukla today sentenced a 30-year-old man to seven years imprisonment for attempting to rape a five-year-old girl.

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 23

The court of Additional District and Session Anshu Shukla today sentenced a 30-year-old man to seven years imprisonment for attempting to rape a five-year-old girl. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1.11 lakh on him.

The court had yesterday convicted Nizzammudin, a resident of Badheri, under Sections 376, 511, 363, 366 of the IPC and various sections of the Protection of Children from sexual Offences Act (POCSO).

As per the prosecution theory, the case was registered on April 14, 2014 when the five-year-old girl went to the market at 9 am to buy curd, which her mother had asked her to bring. The accused, who was near a confectionery shop in the market in Badheri, saw the minor girl and forcibly took her under a parked Bolero jeep in the parking lot in the market and tried to rape her.

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