A POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Friday sentenced a juvenile to life imprisonment in a gang-rape and double-murder case.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 46,000 on the convict.
Special public prosecutor Brijesh Kumar Pandey said that after holding the juvenile guilty on August 22, the special POCSO court of Additional District Judge Rahul Singh pronounced the sentences on Friday under various sections in which he was held guilty.
Pandey said the court sentenced the juvenile with a life imprisonment and fine of Rs 15,000 in section 302/34 of the IPC, five year imprisonment and fine of Rs 5,000 in section 452 and five year jail term with Rs 5,000 fine in section 363 of IPC, six year imprisonment and fine of Rs 5,000 in section 201 of IPC, one year imprisonment and Rs 1,000 as fine in section 323 of IPC.
The juvenile was sent to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 15,000 under section 5g/6 of POCSO Act wsa imposed by the court.
In the double-murder and gang-rape of two minor girls, which occurred on September 14 last year, there were a total of six accused among whom two were juveniles and other four were adults, Pandey said.
He said that the adult accused persons were sentenced on August 14.
The juvenile who was between 16 to 18 years of age was tried in the POCSO court and was sentenced on Friday. Another juvenile accused’s trial is going on a the juvenile justice board.
Two minors were kidnapped from their house in a village under Nighasan police station area on September 14, 2022, gang-raped and brutally strangulated to death.
Their bodies were hanged on a tree in a field.
Authorities formed a special investigation team (SIT) to work out the case in which six accused persons were arrested.
(With PTI inputs)
