JHANSI/LUCKNOW, May 23 -- : A special POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district has sentenced a 32-year-old man to five years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs.1.5 lakh in a child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) case investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The judgment was delivered on Friday by additional district and sessions judge (Rape and POCSO) Kaniska Singh. According to a press release issued by the CBI, the convict, identified as Ramji, a resident of Ramganj under the Eirach police station area, was arrested by the agency on November 14, 2021.

The agency said the case was registered on the basis of source information alleging that a syndicate operating from different parts of India an...