India, Oct. 19 -- A court in Maharashtra's Thane district sentenced a 51-year-old woman to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for forcing a minor girl into prostitution. Additional Sessions Judge DS Deshmukh convicted the accused, Kajal Babu Chandan, of multiple serious offences under the Indian Penal Code, the Immoral Traffic Act, 1956, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. A copy of the order dated October 15 was made available on Saturday.

According to the prosecution, the incident came to light on March 30, 2022, after the police received a tip-off that the accused was supplying girls for prostitution. A trap was laid with a bogus customer, and the accused was caught red handed after accepting the decoy mon...