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A Thane court has sentenced a 26-year-old man from the neighbouring Palghar district to seven years rigorous imprisonment for raping a woman Additional Sessions Judge S C Khalipe pronounced the accused - Ashok Krushna Mukne - guilty under IPC sections 376 (rape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on him.