India, Aug. 7 -- A city court sentenced a 22-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a minor girl in May 2021, said police officers on Friday.

The verdict was pronounced by additional sessions Judge Jasmine Sharma, who presides over a designated special fast-track court. The convict was found guilty under Sections 363 (kidnapping) and 366 (kidnapping with intent to compel marriage) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.

Along with the sentence, the court imposed a fine of Rs.50,000 on the convict. Special public prosecutor Sunil Kumar Parmar said the time already spent by the accused in judici...