The Mahila Court in Tiruppur on Monday awarded 40 years of imprisonment to a 47-year-old man for sexually assaulting a minor girl in 2020.
Family Court judge V.P. Sugandhi, Mahila Court in-charge, awarded the punishment to Ammavasai, resident of a village near Udumalpet.
He was arrested by the All Women Police Station, Udumalpet, on July 1, 2020 on charges of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl from his neighbourhood. According to the police, the man forcefully took the girl to his house, when she was alone at her residence, and sexually assaulted.