Sangli, May 15 -- A special fast-track court at Islampur on Thursday sentenced a man to suffer imprisonment for life for sexually assaulting a minor in a village of Shirala tehsil in the district in June last year.
According to public prosecutor Ranjeet Patil, accused Jaywant Rama Shirsat alias Babjya (46) of Shirsatwadi in the district forcibly took a six-year-old girl in a bush and raped her.
When a woman made noise upon seeing incident, accused ran away from the spot.
After examining five witnesses in the court, Additional Sessions (II) Judge Aniruddha Thatte convicted Shirsat and awarded life imprisonment to him.
The court also slapped a fine of Rs 40,000 on accused and ordered him to give Rs 35,000 from the fine to the victim.
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