Ghaziabad, Oct. 9 -- A Ghaziabad court on Wednesday awarded 20-year rigorous imprisonment to a 50-year-old man who stalked a 17-year-old girl to her home and later raped her inside on July 5, 2022 evening in an incident that took place under the Madhuban Bapudham police station area.

An FIR was lodged under sections 376 (rape), 452 (house-trespass with preparation for hurt, assault, or wrongful restraint), and 506 (criminal intimidation) was lodged on July 7, 2022, along with sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso).

The girl was engaged to a man, and on the day of the incident both visited a temple in Muradnagar. While returning, he dropped her outside a marriage house near her home, and she walked homewards....