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Three sentenced to death in Mumbai rape case
Court finds suspects guilty of
gang-raping photojournalist at abandoned textile mill in India's financial hub
last year.
An Indian court has sentenced three
men to death for the rape of a photojournalist inside an abandoned textile mill
in the financial hub of Mumbai last year.
A fourth defendant was sentenced to
life in prison, prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told the Reuters news agency on Friday.
He said he had asked for the death
sentence under a strict anti-rape law introduced following public outrage over
a fatal gang-rape in New Delhi in 2012.
"This is the first case in India
in which the death penalty has been given to convicts while the victim is
alive," Nikam said.
The three men were found guilty last
month of raping a call-centre operator at the same abandoned mill in July 2013,
months before the attack on the photojournalist.
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Nikam described the three as habitual
offenders.
Judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi said the
offense was diabolical in nature and the punishment would send a strong message
to the society.
Penalties increased
India increased penalties for sex
crimes and moved rape trials faster through its notoriously slow justice system
after a 23-year-old medical student was gang-raped on a moving bus in the
capital and later died. Four men were sentenced to death in the New Delhi case.
The trials in New Delhi and Mumbai
cases were completed within seven months. The four men convicted in the Mumbai
case can appeal the death sentence in an appeals court within three months.
Also on Friday, 24 men were sentenced
to prison for raping a teenager who was abducted in Kerala state in 1996.
A court had acquitted all but one
defendant in 2005, but India's top court ordered a retrial last year. It was
completed
in six months, prosecutor Anella
George said.
One man was sentenced to life in
prison and 23 others from seven to 11 years, George said.
The 16-year-old victim was abducted
and raped in homes, hotels, cars and public buses over one and a half months.
The men convicted in Ernakulam town included a retired professor, lawyers,
businessmen and government officials.
Source: Al Jazeera
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