A SPECIAL (POCSO) Court in Bahraich sentenced a serial offender, who sexually assaulted four minors, to life imprisonment – after the hearing in one of the cases was completed on Wednesday, within a month after the trial began.

The accused, 30, abducted the victims from their house and dropped them near their homes after the crime. These four incidents happened in a period of 15 days, although only one family approached the police and got a case registered.

Trials in the remaining three cases, including two under Scheduled Caste (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, are yet to be completed. The police registered four cases into the incidents which occurred on June 15, 25, 28 and July 3. The judgment in the first case, filed on June 28, was delivered on Wednesday.

DGP Rajeev Krishna said, “We

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