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The Udupi district additional and sessions court has sentenced a 32-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment on charges of sexual assault on a minor girl.

According to police, the accused owns a flour mill. 

The girl had gone to graze her family's cattle on Wednesday and did not return home till evening. Her family had then approached the police.

A 14-year-old Dalit girl and a youth, purported to be her boyfriend, were found hanging from the same tree on Thursday.

An FIR has been lodged on the complaint of the girl's family and the accused has been arrested, they said.

A minor girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified man in the hostel of a residential school in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Sukma district.

Within 12 hours after a minor was reported missing in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, police rescued her and arrested two youths who had allegedly abducted and raped her.

A POCSO court here on Friday sentenced a man to five years imprisonment for molesting a six-year-old minor girl.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man in Garhshankar area, Hoshiarpur, Punjab the police said on Thursday.

The suspect, Shaik Salman alias Shaik Ahmed (20), a daily wage worker, lured the minor girl on the pretext of love.

A local court on Thursday sentenced a man to five years imprisonment for outraging modesty of a minor girl at Uppuguda

The victim's mother told the police that her neighbour Hari Mohan fled after abducting her 14-year-old daughter on the pretext of marriage on April 7 and later left her outside their home in the Nathupur area in Gurugram district

A court in Mancherial on Thursday sentenced a man to imprisonment for three years and imposed a fine of Rs.5,000 for misbehaving with a minor girl three years ago

A watchman, Banabasi Nahak, was sentenced to jail for sexually assaulting a minor girl five years ago.

The girl, a class five student from a government school in Hyderabad, had informed her parents she was going to school, but did not return even till late evening

The incident came to light on Tuesday after the victim lodged a complaint with the police

According to the police, a teenage girl, who is pursuing intermediate second year, made a selfie video seeking help from her friends and police in stopping her marriage.

The 14-year-old teenager reportedly left house informing her parents she was going to school on Saturday, but did not return home.

The forest department officials and police later recovered the mutilated body about 700 metres from the spot and sent it for post-mortem.

The police have formed special teams and examining the footage from the surveillance cameras at the school, house and surroundings to trace her.