A local court here today sentenced a man to 12 years imprisonment for raping a minor girl.
Additional Session Judge Manjinder Singh convicted Mangat Ram, alias Mangi under section 376 of the IPC and also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him.
According to the prosecution, Mangat Ram raped a 4-year-old girl of village Thinda on December 14 last year.
He took the girl to sugarcane fields when she was playing with some children of the locality.
-_PTi