A special court in
Bokaro has sentenced a 17-year-old youth to twenty years of imprisonment for raping a girl, who is a year younger.
Pronouncing the order under POCSO Act on Monday, the judge of the Children Court of Session, Ranjit Kumar, also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on the convict, special public prosecutor Sanjay Kumar Jha said on Tuesday.
On default of payment of the penalty, the convict has to undergo an additional month in prison.
The 17-year-old had in April last year raped the girl at an abandoned house at Chandankiyari area of the district, the public prosecutor said.
The family of the victim filed an FIR, following which he was arrested.
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