India, Aug. 14 -- The testimony of a six-year-old rape survivor cannot be discarded merely because the child is unable to describe the sexual acts in detail, the Bombay High Court said on Monday, setting aside a trial court's acquittal of a 32-year-old man from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar who was accused of kidnapping and raping the girl in 2012.

A division bench of justices Sandipkumar More and Vaishali Patil-Jadhav sentenced Anil Gaikwad, a labourer, to 10 years in jail. The Aurangabad sessions court had earlier acquitted him, giving him the benefit of the doubt. Although medical evidence supported the rape charge, the trial court had held that the six-year-old girl was unable to clearly describe the sexual acts.

Striking down the trial...