India, July 30 -- A special court in Nuh on Tuesday sentenced a 33-year-old man to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting and murdering a 17-year-old boy in 2019 before staging the crime as a suicide.

The fast-track court of additional sessions judge Ashu Sanjeev Tinjan, under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, also imposed an overall fine of Rs.45,000 after convicting him under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the POCSO Act.

The Class 10 student went missing after leaving his house in a village under Sadar Nuh police station on October 31, 2019, and was found hanging inside a catt...