India, Nov. 20 -- A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Arunachal Pradesh's Yupia has sentenced a government school headmaster to life imprisonment for raping a Class 7 student in 2018.

Special judge (POCSO) Hirendra Kashyap convicted Biri Tapa, the then headmaster of a Government Middle School in Itanagar's Niti Vihar, and concluded that the prosecution had proved the charges beyond reasonable doubt. The survivor was 15 years old at the time of the assault.

The case came to light after a video surfaced on social media in November 2018 in which the girl disclosed the incident, prompting an FIR on November 18.

According to the prosecution, led by special public prosecutor Kagam Bagra, the accused took th...