India, Dec. 10 -- The Bombay High Court last week upheld the 14-year jail term given to a 30-year-old man for sexually exploiting eight minor girls, some as young as 10 and 11, at an orphanage run by his father in Chambharli village, Khalapur tehsil.

The court, however, cleared his brother of all the charges against him and allowed their 51-year-old mother to be released based on the time she had already spent in custody after her arrest in June 2015.

The case began in 2015 when advocate Manisha Tulpule, then president of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Raigad, was informed by a teacher that girls at a nearby orphanage were being sexually abused. A CWC officer then visited the orphanage and found that it was being run without the r...