India, May 2 -- A special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) court has on April 28 sentenced a 39-year-old-man to 20 years imprisonment for allegedly raping his 15-year-old daughter multiple times between 2017 and 2020.

According to the prosecution, the girl lost her mother at the age of five. Ever since, she has been living with her father and two younger sisters in Malad. She told the police that the ordeal began in 2017, when her father came home drunk and sexually assaulted her, which kept continuing over the next couple of years every time he consumed liquor.

She alleged that she disclosed the incident to her maternal aunt who refused to help her. In February 2020, she called the child helpline, following which...