ALIGARH: The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Aligarh has sentenced a 50-year-old man to twenty years of rigorous imprisonment after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting his minor girl of 13-year-old adopted daughter in October 2022.
The verdict was pronounced by the additional district judge of the special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences court in Aligarh, Surendra Mohan Sahai. Police said the convict resided with his 2 sons and their wives and had 'adopted' a 6-year-old girl 7 years ago. He told his family that the girl's parents had forsaken her at a brick kiln in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, where he used to work as a labourer.
On October 25, 2022, the convict was caught sexually assaulting the victim by his daughter-in-law, who then informed the locals. After the incident, a social worker filed a complaint against the man at Aligarh's Quarsi police station, following which he was arrested.
The survivor was rescued and sent to an orphanage in Kanpur.