Panchkula, April 21 -- Over four years after he raped a 14-year-old girl in Panchkula, a 30-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in jail by a special POCSO court in Panchkula on Monday.

Deputy district attorney Sukhwinder Kaur said the minor girl narrated the entire incident during her testimony. Her statement was found consistent with her previous statements recorded before the police and the court under Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), leading to the conviction.

A native of Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, the accused was found guilty under Section 4 (2) (penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The court also awarded him two-year jail under Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the I...