Chandigarh, March 2 -- A fast-track court in Palwal on Saturday sentenced a 42-year-old man, Afzal to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a minor girl.

Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ), special fast track court, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Palwal, Prashant Rana while convicting the accused on February 27 said that it has been proved by way of cogent, ocular, medical, forensic and scientific evidence that Afzal kidnapped the 15-year-old girl on the night of September 14, 2021, took her to Muzaffarnagar and raped her. The allegations of administrating intoxicating substance and criminal intimidation remained not proved, the court said.

The ASJ in March 1 sentencing order said that consid...