Additional District and Sessions Judge JS Bhinder convicted Jai Prakash Diwedi, alias Pawan Dubey, of UP, for the kidnapping and rape of a minor girl of a village in Hoshiarpur district, and sentenced him to 10 years rigorous imprisonment.

The victim, aged 17 years and two months at the time of the crime, used to work in a factory in Ludhiana when she was kidnapped and threatened by the accused in May last year. She was taken to New Delhi, where the accused raped her for 15 days, threatening to kill her younger brother if she told anyone about the rape.