District and session judge Kunwar Sain sentenced Sandeep, resident of Brahmpur under Kiritur police station of district Bijnor (UP) to different terms of imprisonment aside from slapping him with fines in connection with the kidnapping and rape of a minor girl from Bhawar area of Kotdwar.
According to the prosecution, a villager from Bhawar had lodged a missing report involving his 17-year-old daughter on 14 June 2014 in the Kalalghati police Chowki. He had alleged that the person from Bijnor has lured his daughter with him. Police had rescued the girl and arrested the accused from Kotdwar Railway station on September 30, 2014.
DGC (Criminal) Avinash Negi said that the police had filed the charge-sheet against the accused under different sections of the Indian Penal Code and Posco. District and session judge sentenced the accused with three years’ imprisonment for kidnapping, 10 years’ imprisonment for rape and one more year of imprisonment for threatening to kill the minor.