A court here on Thursday sentenced Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director of acclaimed 2010 Hindi film 'Peepli Live', to seven years jail after finding him guilty of raping an American woman.

Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Farooqui, who was convicted on July 30 of raping a 35-year-old woman from Columbia University who was in India for research on her doctoral thesis.