Mumbai, August 15: A 36-year-old serial sex offender was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping, and having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old school girl in 2014. According to a Times of India report, the judge said that the accused will remain in jail for the remaining part of his life. The one-eyed paedophile Ayyaz Ansari will also have to pay Rs 1.50 lakh fine, which would go as compensation to the survivor, as ordered by the Court. Mumbaikars Stay Alert: Paedophile Who Has Raped and Molested 12 Kids Is on the Loose

The accused has been booked in 16 such cases, but this is the fifth case in which he has been found guilty. As per the prosecution report, Ansari met the victim when she was on her way home from school, and introduced himself as her father’s friend. He asked the girl to accompany him on the pretext of giving his number to her father. Ansari took her to a remote building and sexually assaulted her. After the man left, the girl found the watchman and narrated her ordeal to him, who then called her father to the spot. The family lodged a complaint with the Sion police station. The key evidence was the testimony of the girl and medical report which confirmed she was sexually assaulted.

Public prosecutor Geeta Sharma demanded death penalty under section 376 E of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) because this was the fifth case against him in which he was found guilty. Reportedly, the Court accepted that he is a serial offender, but refused to grant him a death sentence, observing that capital punishment can only be given in cases of murder or in the rarest of rare crimes.

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