GAIGHAT, UDAYAPUR: A teenager has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of raping a girl in Udayapur.

The District Court on Friday sent a 15-year-old boy from Udayapurgadhi and currently living at a rehab in Biratnagar to prison for raping a girl on September 1. The victim herself filed a complaint with the police. A single bench led by Judge Tejendra Prasad Sharma convicted the youth of rape and handed him a five-year sentence, according to Court's Registrar Ritkumar Magar.