Youth gets one-year jail term for sexual harassment of minor

A local court has sentenced a youth to four-year in jail for sexually harassing a minor girl here two years ago.

Additional District Sessions judge Ram Budh Singh, who passed the order yesterday, also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on Vicky. He was held guilty under POCSO Act for sexual harassment of the 17-year-old girl.

According to the prosecution the girl, who was a student of class 12 at that time, was sexually harassed by Vicky while returning home from her school in khatoli on September 30, 2014.