India, June 25 -- A special Pocso court has sentenced a 40-year-old driver from Mankhurd to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly raping his 16-year-old sister-in-law wile his wife was undergoing treatment in hospital.

Special Judge R.J. Pawar held that the victim's testimony was "natural, consistent and trustworthy" and held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused had repeatedly subjected the teenager to penetrative sexual assault and threatened her into silence. The court also convicted him of criminal intimidation.

According to the prosecution, the victim, then 16, and her brother had been staying at their elder sister's home in Mankhurd to help care for her after a hernia surgery. The accuse...