A district court on Tuesday sentenced a 24-year-old accused to 5 years of rigorous imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 2000 for molesting, wrongful restraint of a 10 year-old girl.
The accused was sentenced in the court of Kumudini Patel in which accused was sentenced 5 years of imprisonment for case under sections 9 and 10 of POCSO Act, 3 years for wrongful restraint by trespassing and 1 year of imprisonment for case under section 354 of the IPC.
According to prosecution, the accused Vinod Meena, came to house regrading enquiry of house on rent when victim was alone and when she replied and went inside accused came inside house locked the door from inside and molested her, the victim raised alert and locals rushed to her rescue and nabbed the accused.
The molester also intimidated her not to tell anybody about the incident. The accused tried to strangulate her and threatened that he would kill her on raising alert. The case was registered in the year 2014 and presented in the court in the year 2015.
Meanwhile, the 32nd Road Safety month would be observed from January 18 to February 17 and under the week traffic awareness rally was organized by Traffic Police Bhopal was organized on Tuesday at at Motilal Stadium, Lalparade Ground of state capital.
The chief guest of this program was Avinash Lavania, Collector Bhopal, Chairman Irshad Wali Commissioner Municipal Corporation Bhopal, Aditya Singh CEO as special guest in the program.
Additional Superintendent of Police Sandeep Dixit said that various programs would be jointly organized by responsible departments on information, engineering, education, emergency, golden rules of traffic, over speeding, use of mobile during driving, wrong lane driving, drunk and driving, over taking, helmet, seat belt, safe pedestrian.
These will be disseminated through VMS, PA system, smart poll, banner poster, leaflets, short films, street plays, awareness chariots, socials, electronic and print media.