India, Dec. 25 -- A court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday awarded 20-year rigorous imprisonment to a 28-year-old man for kidnapping and raping a five-year-old minor girl whom he picked up while she was sleeping outside her house with her grandmother on the night of July 24, 2018.

An FIR in this connection was registered at the Vijay Nagar police station under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 376 (rape) and also under the provisions of the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act against Gulab (single name). Locals had caught him at the crime scene, a kilometre from their locality.

Police filed a chargesheet in the case on September 19, 2018.

The girl's father told the court that on the day of the incident, he got up at night and fo...