Panchkula, July 11 -- A local court has awarded ten years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a 49 year-old-man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old minor in the area of the Sector 7 police station in 2022.

The case was registered on the complaint of the victim's mother who said her daughter had gone out to get some items from a nearby shop after returning home from school. When she did not come back after some time, a search was conducted, and the child's crying was heard from a neighbor's house, raising alarm after hearing her daughter, the accused managed to flee from the spot.

Upon asking the minor revealed that the accused had forcefully taken her to his house and sexually assaulted her. She also revealed that the accused had do...