A special court in Maharashtra's Thane has sentenced an elderly man to three years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing a four-year-old girl. Judge D S Deshmukh, hearing cases filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, passed the order on Tuesday.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the 64-year-old convict Mohammad Umar Sheikh, a hawker from Mumbra.