Shocking: Six professors thrashed for gang-raping dalit girl for four months, five get life term daily.bhaskar/article/GUJ-AHD-shocking-six-professors-gang-rape-student-for-four-months-five-get-life-term-in--4450678-PHO.html#seq=1 Ahmedabad/Patan: In a case of gang-rape of an 18-year-old Dalit girl by her teachers, Gujarat high court on Saturday awarded life term to five accused while reduced the sentence of one of the convicts. The high court observed that a gruesome crime had been committed on the girl that traumatised her to the extent that she suffered from frequent bouts of fainting. So, this was certainly a case of crime where no leniency was justified. After hearing the appeal against the sentence by the six convicts, a bench, comprising Justice Aqil Kureshi and Justice ZK Saiyed, confirmed the sentence of life imprisonment given to Kiran Patel, Ashwin Parmar, Suresh Patel, Mahendra Prajapati and Manish Prajapati. While Atul Patel, the sixth convict in the crime, the HC observed that since he was engaged in only one crime and not involved in the conspiracy or the act of gang rape, he was charged under Section 376 and sentenced to a 10-year-rigorous imprisonment. In 2009, Justice SC Srivastave of a special fast track court had declared all the six guilty and sentenced them for life. In 2007 and 2008, a Dalit girl was repeatedly raped over a period of four months by her professors at the government primary teachers’ training college in Patan. The victim is one of the five children of a landless agricultural labourer, the accused were thashed by locals for perpetrating the crime.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 05:50:19 +0000
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