Chandigarh, Dec. 6 -- A 44-year-old employee of the Chandigarh electricity department has been sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for sexually assaulting two minor girls in Dhanas in November 2023. He has also been told to pay a fine of Rs.10,000.

As per the police complaint, the victim, aged 11, was playing with her friend in a Dhanas park when the accused, later identified as Bahadur Singh, approached them, stating that he was her maternal uncle. He then molested her as well as her friend. The victim's mother later found the two girls crying in the park.

On the mother's complaint, a case under Sections 354 (assault or criminal force on a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty) and 354 A (sexual harassment) of ...