A court in Maharashtra's Palghar district has sentenced a 47-year-old man to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl in 2016.

The court of special judge Sanjaykumar V Khongal, hearing cases pertaining to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, in the order passed on Friday also imposed a collective fine of Rs 6,000 under various charges on the accused, who worked as a security guard in Virar town.