A young woman’s fight for justice paid off yesterday, when a city Sessions Court sentenced a 30-year-old for raping her last year, when she was one-month pregnant. Special women’s court judge A S Shende handed a sentence of 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment to the accused, Eshwar Caseghodam (30), a resident of Wadala.

The woman is also a Wadala resident. The incident had taken place on April 18, 2014. In her deposition in court last year, the 20-year-old survivor had said she had gone to Kandivli in search of work that day. After taking care of some work in Nallasopara, she reached Wadala station at 11 pm. There, she saw a family friend on a motorcycle.