A New Delhi court has sentenced an Indian filmmaker to seven years in prison in the rape of an American graduate student last year.
Judge Sanjiv Jain issued the punishment Thursday for Mahmood Farooqui, a Bollywood director, writer and theater performer. Farooqui can appeal the verdict within 30 days.
Farooqui was convicted last week after the woman complained that he was drunk and raped her at his house in the Indian capital where she had gone for help with her thesis research. Farooqui denied the allegation.
The case highlights the persistence of violence against women in India despite an outcry following the December 2012 death of a woman who was brutally gang raped on a bus in New Delhi, leading to stronger laws against sexual assault.
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