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Mumbai: Man gets 5-year jail term for sexually assaulting 7-yr-old girl
Updated On: 29 October, 2020 02:04 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The incident took place on December 4, 2017, when the victims grandmother had gone to her native village and the victims mother was attending to her disabled brother-in-law
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A 21-year-old man was convicted by a special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court on Tuesday for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl in 2017 in Mumbai’s Pydhonie.
The convict, identified as Kanahiya Sawant, was found guilty under Sections 8 (punishment for sexual assault) and 10 (punishment for aggravated sexual assault) of the POCSO Act, according to a report in Mumbai Mirror. Sawant was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 15,000.
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