A 56-year-old government school teacher has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a POCSO court for raping a Class 10 student of his school in 2019.

POCSO court judge Hanuman Prasad also imposed a fine of Rs 47,000 on the convict Fariyad Ali on October 6, public prosecutor, Suresh Kumar Verma, said. The teacher first molested the girl during a school trip to Ramgarh on January 17, 2019. After the trip, the teacher offered to drop the girl at her home and raped her on the way.