Pune: A 24-year-old farmer has been sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a five-year-old girl in 2019. The youth was aware that he was HIV-positive, observed the court of special judge (Pocso Act) Sucheta M Takalikar on Thursday.
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