Man sentenced to 8 years in jail for kidnapping minor in 2019
Ballia (UP) (PTI): A court here sentenced a man to eight years imprisonment for kidnapping a 17-year-old girl in 2017, police said on Saturday.
Additional District Judge (POCSO) Pratham Kant on Friday also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Devgan Kumar Yadav, they said.
Superintendent of Police Omvir Singh, on Saturday, said Yadav had kidnapped the girl on the night of January 5, 2019. Based on her grandfather's complaint, Devgan was arrested under sections 363 (punishment for kidnapping) and 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc) of the Indian Penal Code and other sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The court found Devgan guilty and sentenced him to eight years' imprisonment, the SSP said.
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Woman dies by suicide using husband's rifle in UP's Kaushambi
Kaushambi (UP) (PTI): A woman allegedly committed suicide by shooting herself with her husband's licensed rifle on Saturday morning, police here said.
The woman was identified as Sangeeta Devi (42), wife of Karan Singh, a resident of Purab Sharira village in the police station area.
According to police, Sangeeta shot herself with her husband's licensed rifle, following which her husband took her to the district hospital with his family members, where doctors declared her dead.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rajesh Kumar Singh said that he reached the spot after receiving the information, and preliminary investigation revealed that Sangeeta was suffering from depression.
She was undergoing treatment for it in Prayagraj, Singh said.
The body has been sent for post-mortem, and further investigation is underway, Singh added.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
