NEW DELHI:
Four men were today found guilty by a Delhi court of gangraping and murdering a
23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus here in December last year, a
case that evoked nationwide outrage and led the government to bring in
stringent anti-rape laws. The court
would hear arguments on the quantum of sentence tomorrow.
Besides
gangrape and murder, the court held Mukesh (26), Vinay Sharma (20), Pawan Gupta
(19) and Akshay Singh Thakur (28) guilty of attempt to murder, unnatural
offences, dacoity, destruction of evidence, conspiracy, kidnapping or abducting
in order to murder, while acquitting them of the charge of murder in dacoity. Additional
Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna, presiding the special fast track court, also
convicted them for kidnapping or abducting with intent to secretly and
wrongfully confining a person, abducting to subject a person to grievous hurt
and slavery, abducting woman to cause her defilement, voluntarily causing hurt
in committing robbery and dishonestly receiving property stolen in the
commission of a dacoity of the IPC.
As soon
as the verdict was delivered, Pawan broke down while Vinay was in a state of
shock.
Mukesh
was heard saying "that they would have to face the consequences for what
they have done". The fourth convict Akshay seemed unaffected. "All
the accused have been convicted for various offences including attempt to kill
the complainant (victim's male friend), for gangrape with the victim and also
for unnatural sex with her and killing the victim...
"The
accused have also tried to destroy the evidence after the incident, so they are
convicted under section 201 of the IPC. They had abducted the victim to have
illicit intercourse with her, so they are convicted under section 366 of the
IPC," the judge said while pronouncing the judgement.
The
murder charge, for which the four men have been convicted, entails a maximum of
death penalty and life term as the minimum punishment. While
pronouncing the verdict, the judge said, even though the proceedings against
accused Ram Singh (34), who was found dead in his prison cell after he
committed suicide on March 11, were abated, "he is also convicted under
same sections (gangrape, murder and other offences)".
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