New Delhi, Dec 16: In a major development, a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district sentenced Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ramdular Gond to 25 years for raping a minor girl nine years ago.He represents Sonbhadra’s Duddhi constituency.

In November 2014, Gond was booked by Myorpur police under sections 376 (rape) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC, and other relevant sections of the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual offences) Act, based on a complaint by the kin of the survivor, a teenage girl at the time.

Sonbhadra MP-MLA court of additional district judge (I) Ahsanullah Khan also slapped a penalty of ₹10 lakh on the MLA on Wednesday. The sentence of 25 years includes 20 years of rigorous imprisonment.

According to the family of the girl, Gond had sexually assaulted the girl when she had gone to a field on the Myorvpur village outskirts. At that time of the incident, Gond was not an MLA.

While his wife was the gram pradhan at the time of the incident.

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