The district court has convicted a 35-year-old man for kidnapping a teenage boy for ransom and sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for seven years.

The court acquitted another accused involved in the 2015 kidnapping case for want of evidence. District and sessions court judge Shailendra Tambe convicted Kalim Ishaq Ansari under section 387 (Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts or attempts to put any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000.