A sexual abuse victim should not have been made to go from one police station to another, a special court in Mumbai has said while hearing a case where a five-year-old girl was taken to three police stations after she was raped in 2015.

As per a report in The Indian Express, the court had on Thursday sentenced a 34-year-old man to life imprisonment in the case on charges of rape and kidnapping under the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. In its detailed order, the court said that the evidence showed that the child was taken to three police stations after she was raped. During the trial, the lawyer of the accused had raised this issue to cite whether the FIR was filed in the proper jurisdiction.