A special court on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old Mankhurd resident to three years of rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a minor on a crowded train in 2017. The accused, Mukesh Yadav, was also fined Rs 10,000, a Mumbai Mirror report read.

The bench headed by special judge BV Kale convicted Yadav under section 8 of POSCO Act and section 354 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). According to a submission by public prosecutor Sulabha Joshi, the incident took place when the victim and her family were traveling between Thane and Mulund stations around 11 am. Yadav began to touch the minor inappropriately on her chest, and her private part. Due to the crowd, the girl was unable to move and out of discomfort, she told her father that Yadav had touched her inappropriately, the prosecution said.