10 years for assaulting 7-year-old boy

MUMBAI: A 24-year-old man was convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on Saturday for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old boy in 2015. Special public prosecutor Meera Choudhari Bhosale said that the mother was the complainant in the case.
The prosecution told the court that on in May 2015, at about 1.15pm, when the child returned home after playing, the mother noticed a Rs 10 note in his shirt pocket.When she checked with the child, he told her that the accused, who lived in the neighbourhood had given him the money. He stated that the previous night the accused had taken him to the railway tracks behind the house and sexually assaulted him.