New Delhi, March 12 -- Delhi's Rohini court has awarded two life sentences to a man for sodomising a 10-year-old boy and thereafter murdering him by strangulation in the year 2018.

He had committed the crime after kidnapping the minor and had dumped the body in a drain in the Bhalaswa dairy area after committing the offence in order to destroy the evidence. An FIR was registered at Shalimar Bagh Police Station in the year 2018.

Special Judge (POCSO) Sushil Bala Dagar awarded two life sentences to the Convict for the offences of murder and sodomising a minor aged below 10 years. He has been sentenced to a term of 7 years for kidnapping the minor and 3 years for the offence of destroying the evidence. All sentences shall run concurrently....