India, Jan. 30 -- A special POCSO court sentenced a 32-year-old Vikroli resident to five years imprisonment for molesting a six-year-old girl while she was playing near her house in a parked rickshaw.

The incident, according to the prosecution, took place in July 2022 when the girl was playing and the accused, who was a resident of the same area, went up to her and touched her inappropriately. When the elder sister of the girl came looking for her, the accused fled from the spot.

The sisters informed their mother about the incident, following which they went to the Parksite police station, and an FIR was registered on July 21, 2022, based on the mother's statement.

The girl in her statement before the special POCSO court said she was p...