A special court on Monday sentenced a 35-year-old security guard of a civic school in Maharashtra`s Thane district to five years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing two 10-year-old students.

Special (POCSO) judge VV Virkar convicted Vikas Shankar Chavan of charges under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment.