{"id":43849,"date":"2016-07-12T19:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43849"},"modified":"2016-07-13T03:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:01:45","slug":"man-sentenced-life-term-raping-10-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/man-sentenced-life-term-raping-10-year-old-girl","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to life term for raping 10-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39176\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/posco-act.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39176\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-upholds-conviction-of-man-under-pocso-act-for-abusing-minor\/posco-act\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/posco-act.png?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"299,169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"posco act\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/posco-act.png?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/posco-act.png?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-39176 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/posco-act.png?resize=299%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Man sentenced to life term for raping 10-year-old girl\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man sentenced to life term for raping 10-year-old girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A special court for POCSO Act cases today awarded life sentence to a man for raping a 10-year-old girl at Kathana village in Borsad tehsil of Anand district.<\/p>\n<p>Judge N N Parmar of the special court for Protection of Children from the Sexual Offences Act cases awarded life sentence to Sanjay Parmar (25), the accused.<\/p>\n<p>On December 31, 2013, Parmar told the victim girl, who lived with her parents at Kankapura village, that her mother was going to her parents&#8217; house after fighting with the girl&#8217;s father and she had asked the girl to follow her to the grandparents&#8217; house.<\/p>\n<p>He then took the girl &#8212; who knew Parmar because he was a relative &#8212; to the neighbouring Kathana and raped her behind a temple there.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested two days later and booked under sections 376 (rape) and 363 (kidnapping) of Indian Penal Code and under POCSO Act.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special court for POCSO Act cases today awarded life sentence to a man for raping a 10-year-old girl at Kathana village in Borsad tehsil of Anand district. 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