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Youth gets 10-year rigorous imprisonment in rape case

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Press Trust of India Sonipat
A youth was today sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by a local court here for abducting and raping a college student.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge, Manisha Batra held the youth, Amit, guilty of raping the girl, a resident of a village in Delhi, and awarded 10 years imprisonment besides imposing a fine of Rs 5,000.

According to the prosecution, on May 16 last year, the convicted youth pulled the girl, inside a car while she was standing outside her college gate at Khanpur Kalan here and raped her in a nearby field.

After raping her, he dropped the girl at the college gate.

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First Published: May 24 2013 | 11:56 PM IST

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