Jharkhand: 3 sentenced to life in prison for raping class 9

Three men were sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping a girl in Jharkhand's Bokaro and then blackmailing her.

Special POCSO court judge Ranjit Kumar sentenced Mohammad Rashid, Mohammad Akbar and Mohammad Faizal to life in prison for raping the class IX student in August 2018, special public prosecutor Sanjay Kumar Jha said.

The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on each one of them, he added.

Trial of the three other accused in the case, who are minors, is going on in the juvenile justice board, he said.

The girl was returning home from tuition in the evening of August 3, 2018 when she was kidnapped and raped at an under-construction house, according to the investigation.

They also beat her up, made a video of the whole incident and warned that if she told anybody about it, the clip would be posted online.

The girl returned home later in the night and was taken to a hospital the next day after she complained of pain.

A case was subsequently filed.