Panchkula, Oct. 28 -- A local court convicted a 25-year-old man in a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in 2021. Additional sessions judge Bikramjit Aroura held the accused guilty, while a co-accused, aged 35, was acquitted. The court is scheduled to pronounce the quantum of sentence on Tuesday.

The case was registered in July 2021 at the women police station, Panchkula, after authorities received information regarding the sexual assault of a 13-year-old minor girl. The victim's father, a widower with three children, reported that his eldest daughter disclosed that the accused had sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions in June 2021. He...