India, Dec. 10 -- A Ghaziabad court has awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to a 30-year-old man for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl several times in 2018 and 2019 and also impregnating her, the prosecution lawyers said.

The girl's family had lodged an FIR on January 31, 2019, at the Link Road police station.

According to the prosecution case, accused Mohammad Sahul, then aged 24 and a resident of Farrukhnagar, Sahibabad, faced charges under Indian Penal Code section 376(3) (rape of a woman or girl under the age of sixteen years), 506 (criminal intimidation) and also under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso).

An FIR was lodged at the Link Road police station by the victim's sister when on...