India, Aug. 2 -- A Ghaziabad court on Thursday sentenced a 26-year-old man to 10 years in prison for abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl in November 2019 after befriending her on social media.

The incident took place on November 14, 2019, when the accused, Sahibabad resident Salman Khan, alias Sam, allegedly lured the girl into his Swift car and took her on a train to Rampur, where he forcibly made her stay at his aunt's house for three to four days before raping her several times, and then returning to Ghaziabad, according to police.

An FIR in this connection was registered on November 19, 2019, under sections 376 (rape), 363 (kidnapping), and 366 (abducting or kidnapping a woman for compelling her to marry) of the Indian Penal Cod...