A man was sentenced to seven years in jail in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Saturday for raping a woman in 2011.
District Sessions Judge JA Thakkar sentenced Arvind Koli to seven years in jail and fined him Rs 25,000 for the incident which took place in March, 2011 in Changodar village near here.
The court took into account documentary evidence submitted by the prosecution as well as the victim's statement to pronounce Koli guilty under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, though 20 witnesses had turned hostile.
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