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UP courtroom convicts priest for school scholar’s rape, awards life imprisonment

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By PTI

MUZAFFARNAGAR: An area courtroom on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to a priest after convicting him for abducting and raping a university scholar.

Additional District Sessions Court choose Chotelal Yadav additionally imposed a positive of Rs 25,000 on the accused, recognized as Premchand Goswami.

According to authorities counsel Rajiv Sharma, the second-year school scholar was kidnapped in 2016 when she had gone to supply prayers on the native temple.

The police registered a case towards Goswami, the temple priest, and the scholar was traced after 4 months, Sharma mentioned.

The sufferer informed the police that the priest had raped her a number of instances throughout this era.

He additionally stored altering his hideout, the federal government counsel mentioned.

Following an investigation, the police filed a chargesheet and the courtroom convicted Goswami after listening to arguments from either side.

MUZAFFARNAGAR: An area courtroom on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to a priest after convicting him for abducting and raping a university scholar.

Additional District Sessions Court choose Chotelal Yadav additionally imposed a positive of Rs 25,000 on the accused, recognized as Premchand Goswami.

According to authorities counsel Rajiv Sharma, the second-year school scholar was kidnapped in 2016 when she had gone to supply prayers on the native temple.

The police registered a case towards Goswami, the temple priest, and the scholar was traced after 4 months, Sharma mentioned.

The sufferer informed the police that the priest had raped her a number of instances throughout this era.

He additionally stored altering his hideout, the federal government counsel mentioned.

Following an investigation, the police filed a chargesheet and the courtroom convicted Goswami after listening to arguments from either side.