MUMBAI: A
special POCSO court
on Saturday convicted and sentenced a 22-year-old man to 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in 2015.
Special public prosecutor
Usha Jadhav said that the survivor and her mother deposed in court. The mother, who works as a house help, said that at the time of the incident she had gone to the market. A relative told her that their neighbour, who was 19 at that time, had sexually assaulted the child on the pretext of showing her music videos on his cellphone. The girl's mother then called up her husband who confronted the man while the police were informed. A complaint was lodged at the
Powai
police station.
The court has directed the convict to pay Rs.25,000 as compensation to the survivor besides a fine of Rs 1,000.