Mumbai, May 22 -- The Bombay High Court has granted 25 days' parole to a man convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act to enable him to build a new house after his earlier house was demolished in the process of land acquisition for the Navi Mumbai International Airport project.
Petitioner Pardeep Gaikwad was convicted by a Panvel court in Navi Mumbai in 2019 under provisions of the POCSO Act and the Indian Penal Code and was initially sentenced to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment. However, while hearing his appeal, the High Court later reduced the sentence to 10 years.
Gaikwad had made an application for grant of parole citing the reason but prison authorities had rejected it .
Following this he moved a...