Chandigarh, April 26 -- A 32-year-old man who had molested a seven-year-old girl in 2023 has been sentenced to five-year imprisonment by a special POCSO court.

An auto driver by profession, the convict, identified as Sandeep Kumar, used to pick up and drop off the minor girl between school and home.

The girl had confided in her class teacher that after all children were dropped off, the auto driver would molest her. The teacher alerted the police, who took immediate action and arrested the auto driver.

He was subsequently booked under Sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 354 (outraging modesty) and 354-A (sexual harassment) of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 10 (aggravated sexual assault) of the POCSO Act at the Industrial Area poli...