Rejecting a convict's argument that the survivor was not cross-examined during the trial, the Bombay High Court upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a 27-year-old man for raping a three-year-old girl in September 2014.

According to a report in Hindustan Times, Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik on Monday concluded that the trial court in the case had rightly convicted Sudam Shelke and he did not deserve leniency. The court noted that the girl was hardly three at the time the crime was committed. "There can be no infirmity in the prosecution case only because of the non-examination of the victim," the court said.