Mumbai: The four convicts of Shakti Mill gang-rape with telephone operator last year sentenced for lifetime jail by city sessions court on Friday.
The sentencing for the photojournalist gang-rape case has been adjourned till March 24th.
The judgment had been pronounced by Principal sessions judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi in the courtroom.
Under the amended law life imprisonment means imprisonment till the “remaining part of a person’s natural life”.
The court had on Thursday convicted the five men for gang-rape, conspiracy and offences under the Information Technology Act.
The court found Vijay Jadhav, 19, Mohammad Qasim Shaikh, 21 and Mohammad Ansari, 28 guilty for both the gang-rape cases.
In addition to the trio, the court found Siraj Khan guilty in the photojournalist gang-rape case on August 22, and Mohammad Ashfaque Shaikh, 26, guilty of the telephone operator gang-rape case at the same compound on July 31 last year. Two minors, one in each case, are being tried under the juvenile justice act separately.
The crime branch that investigated both cases submitted a 362 page chargesheet in the telephone operator case on October 8 last year, while a 600 page chargesheet was filed in the photojournalist case on September 19.
The trial was conducted on a day-to-day basis in the court presided by Shalini Phansalkar Joshi.
Bureau Report
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