Updated On: 05 January, 2023 02:33 PM IST | Thane | PTI
The man was charged with provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly kidnapping the girl from Kalwa here and taking her to his native Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and raping and impregnating her.

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A special court in Thane in Maharashtra has acquitted a man accused of kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl in 2016.
The man was charged with provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly kidnapping the girl from Kalwa here and taking her to his native Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and raping and impregnating her.