"Life imprisonment till his natural death." This was the punishment Additional Sessions Judge, and the designated judge for POCSO, M A Baraliya pronounced yesterday for one-eyed molester Ayaz Mohammed Ansari. Ansari, who molested at least 68 children, was earlier convicted for raping and performing unnatural sex on a 67-year-old girl in Sion. This was his third conviction; he has at least 66 more cases pending against him.

Special public prosecutor Geeta Naval Sharma had filed an application in court seeking death penalty for him. But the court, after hearing both sides, gave life imprisonment till death. It, however, allowed additional charges to be filed against him under section 376 E of the IPC and sections 5 (T) and 9 (T) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, considering it was his third conviction.