Mumbai: A sessions court today found three of the four persons, convicted for gang-raping a photojournalist at the Shakti Mill Compound last year, guilty as repeat sexual offenders and can now be sentenced to death.
The court proclaimed them guilty as repeat sexual offenders after hearing the final arguments on the addition of Section 376 E in the photojournalist gang-rape case since the three men were also found guilty of gang-raping an 18-year-old telephone operator at the Shakti Mill Compound earlier.
Maximum punishment under Section 376 E is death. A total of seven persons including two minors, were arrested in connection with the two gang-rapes involving a telephone operator and a photojournalist in July-August 2013.
Principal sessions court judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi convicted Vijay Jadhav, 19, Mohammad Qasim Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali, 21 and Mohammad Ansari, 28, in both the cases. while Siraj Khan was found guilty in the photojournalist gang-rape case (on August 22) and Mohammad Ashfaque Shaikh, in the telephone operator gang-rape case at the same compound on July 31 last year.
Two minors, one in each case, are being tried by the Juvenile Justice Board separately.
Bureau Report
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