A Special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court in Vadodara has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 20-year rigorous imprisonment, despite the victim and her parents turning hostile during the trial. The accused is a convict in a 2022 case of rape of his minor niece in a village on the outskirts of Vadodara city. The court — terming the victim a “tutored witness” due to her “family relation” with the accused — relied on medical evidence and “demeanor” of the accused in awarding the sentence. According to…