India, June 1 -- A man was sentenced to 20 years in jail for raping a 15-year-old girl.

The court of Additional Sessions Judge Parag Sane in Belapur found Govindkumar Harilal Nirmal (24), a vada-pav stall labourer, guilty under IPC Section 376(3) and multiple provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The court also imposed a concurrent 2-year rigorous imprisonment sentence under IPC Section 506 for criminal intimidation.

In July 2019, Nirmal pulled the victim, a Class X student, from a common water tap into his house and raped her twice.

As per the prosecution, he put a speaker on full volume to drown out her screams. After she became pregnant, her kin got a case registered in December that year.

The ...