A 57-year-old man is awarded two life sentences by a court in Vadodara for raping a 10-year-old mentally-challenged girl in 2016. District and sessions judge N L Dave on Monday held the accused, Lalji Parmar, guilty of raping a minor girl in the staff quarters of the city-based M S University, where they both were neighbours.

Upholding the government pleader's arguments and considering evidence on record, the judge pronounced the life sentence, while holding Parmar guilty under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on him.