A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a man to eight years' rigorous imprisonment for culpable homicide in a 2018 assault case. The court said that the prosecution failed to prove he intended to commit murder.

As per PTI, Kalyan court's Additional Sessions Judge R V Tamhanekar, in the order on Friday, sentenced Pravin Santosh Mukane. However, the Thane court acquitted another accused, Satyawan Balkrishna Waghe, giving him the benefit of doubt.