Panchkula, Jan. 8 -- A special POCSO court in Panchkula sentenced a private school bus driver to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for sexually assaulting a four-year-old nursery student in February 2020. The convict, identified asNiranjan Singh alias Honey, a resident of Solan district ofHimachal Pradesh, has also been told to pay a fine of Rs.50,000. He was convicted under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, which deals with aggravated penetrative sexual assault. This is the first conviction delivered by this special court since its constitution inNovember last year. The incident took place on February 14, 2020. The victim, who used to reside with her aunt in Panchkula, was the laststudent to be dropped home. With no female attendant present inside the bus, the four-year-old was left vulnerable and the convict, aged 24 at the time, sexually assaulted her. On reaching home, the girl told her aunt that "driver uncle had acted inappropriately". Although the family attempted to lodge a complaint the same day, the FIR was registered on February 15 due to a non-functional CCTNS (crime and criminal tracking network and systems) server in Panchkula. Police arrested the accused on February 15 after seizing the closed-circuit television(CCTV) camera footage from the bus....