PUDUCHERRY: A special court handling cases booked under the Protection of children from sexual offences (Pocso) Act, 2012 sentenced a 23-year-old engineer to undergo 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at Mahe, Puducherry’s enclave in Kerala in 2021.
Special judge (Pocso) V Sofana Devi also sentenced the engineer M K Jyothilal from Thalassery, Kannur district, Kerala to undergo seven years of rigorous imprisonment for trespassing the minor survivor's house to commit the crime.