JAMMU, Oct. 7 -- Principal Sessions Judge, Ganderbal Abdul Nasir has convicted and sentenced Ulfat Ahmad Magray, resident of Khanan Kangan, to 10 years of imprisonment in a case registered under FIR No. 24/2020 P/S Kangan for offences under the POCSO Act.
The case originated in April 2020 when the father of the victim, then a minor student of Class 10, lodged a complaint alleging that the accused had enticed his daughter to a forest area and committed sexual assault. Medical examination later revealed that the girl was pregnant and she subsequently gave birth to a child.
A DNA report from the Forensic Science Laboratory, Srinagar, conclusively established that the accused was the biological father of the child. The Court held that the vic...