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Mumbai Shakti Mills rape: Sentencing today

| | Apr 04, 2014, at 04:28 pm
Mumbai, Apr 4 (IBNS) A Mumbai court, which has held guilty three men accused of raping a photo journalist inside an abandoned mill in Mumbai last year August as repeat offender and charged them under the amended stringent anti-rape laws under which they can face death sentence, will pronounce the quantum of punishment on Friday.


They were charged under section 376 E of Indian Penal Code. The maximum punishment under this section is death. The court said in respect of Section 376 E that the "legislature wants to ensure that such tendency should be crushed."

The young photojournalist was gangraped on 22 Aug 2013 inside the mill area when she entered it for a shoot. His male colleague was tied up as she was assaulted by the men.
 
Five men, including a minor, were accused of the attack. The culprits were charged with rape, conspiracy, common intention and unnatural sex.
 

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