Gurugram, 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 cattle shed the next morning. Initially treated as a suspected suicide under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (inquiries into suicide or suspicious deaths), a detailed autopsy received on November 10 revealed sexual assault, throttling and that the body had been hanged after death. Deputy district attorney Manish Yadav said DNA, forensic evidence, technical investigation and witness statements led to the conviction. HTC...