Court imposes five years imprisonment, Rs 5,000 fine for man in 2019 sexually harassing case

A local court sentenced a man to five years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a Rs 5,000 fine for sexually harassing a minor girl in a case reported at Chandrayangutta in 2019.

Hyderabad: A local court on Thursday sentenced a man to five years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing a minor girl in a case reported at Chandrayangutta in 2019.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5000 on him.

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The convict Abdul Qayyum of Chandrayangutta, in the guise of teaching Arabic, took the eight-year-old girl into a room in the house to a secluded spot and made sexual advances towards her. The frightened child raised an alarm, escaped and informed her family.

Based on the complaint, Chandrayangutta police booked a case and arrested Qayyum.