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A 38-year-old man, earlier arrested by the Santosh Nagar constabulary for sexually assaulting a insignificant boy, was sentenced to acquisition six years’ rigorous imprisonment by a peculiar tribunal successful Nampally connected Tuesday.
The tribunal besides slapped a good of ₹10,000 connected the accused.
The accused, identified arsenic Fazal-E-Alam-Kaifi, a nonmigratory of Moin Bagh, Hyderabad, was convicted nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The incidental came to airy erstwhile the six-year-old boy, who was playing with a radical of children connected a terrace, failed to instrumentality downstairs. His younger sister went to look for him and recovered the accused, a relative, unsocial with the lad successful a compromising situation. Fazal fled erstwhile confronted, and the household lodged a ailment connected February 24, 2022.
The lawsuit was referred to the Bharosa Centre, wherever the kid and his household received counselling, affectional enactment and aesculapian assistance.
The condemnation followed coordinated efforts by the investigating officers of Santoshnagar police, Special Public Prosecutor M. Ramadevi, ineligible counsellors astatine the Bharosa Centre, and tribunal staff.
The proceedings were monitored by DCP Women Safety Lavanya N.J.P., ACP Women Safety Prasanna Lakshmi and Bharosa Centre officials.
