Father gets 5 year RI for sexually assaulting daughter

A 53-year-old man has been sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000 by a local court here for sexually assaulting his daughter. Lingam Kumar, a resident of Alwal here, repeatedly sexually assaulted the girl for two years when she was just ten years, the Cyberabad Police said in a press release on Friday.

In July 2014, she informed her school teacher about her condition following which the district child protection unit was alerted. The DCPU sent her to a government children home and also sounded the police.

Subsequently, he was arrested and remanded in judicial custody..