A local court here today sentenced two men to life imprisonment for abducting, sodomising and murdering a minor boy two years ago.
Additional District Sessions Judge V K Pandey held Ibrahim (22) and Amir (21) guilty under sections 363 (kidnapping), 377 (unnatural sex) and 302 (murder) of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, prosecution lawyer Pushpender Malik said.
The third convict, Irfan, Ibrahim's father, was charged under section 201 (destruction of evidence) of the IPC, he added.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 each on Ibrahim and Amir, Malik said, adding that half of this amount will go to the victim's father who is the complainant in the case.
According to the case details, Ibrahim and Amir lured the 10-year-old victim to a godown in Muzaffarnagar's Khatauli area on February 5, 2016, on the pretext of flying kites.
The two sodomised the boy in the godown before killing him by smashing his head with a stone.
Later, Ibrahim told Irfan about what had happened and the father tried to cover up the incident.