Muzaffarnagar, April 05: A local court here sentenced a man to seven-year imprisonment for raping a dalit woman besides slapping a fine of Rs 5,000 against him, police said.
Additional District Sessions Judge Raj Bahadur Singh convicted Nitesh Kumar, after holding him guilty under section 376 (rape) of the IPC.
The woman was working in the fields, when she was forcibly taken to a nearby area and raped by the accused, at Bahadurpur village in the district on July 2008.
–PTI