Hyderabad, April 6 --  A city court on Monday, April 6, sentenced a 22-year-old mason to five years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting five minor girls in 2020, with a special sessions court also imposing a fine of Rs 20,000 on the convict.

Special Sessions Judge G Uday Bhaskar Rao, presiding over Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) cases at Haca Bhavan, convicted Abdul Salman of Ghousenagar, Bandlaguda, under sections 354 (assault or criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 12 read with section 11 (sexual harassment of a child) of the POCSO Act.

According to the prosecution, Salman had in January 2...