Three get 12 yrs' RI for gangrape of minor

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Press Trust of India Raiganj (WB)
Last Updated : Jan 09 2014 | 8:56 PM IST
A local court today sentenced three persons to 12 year rigorous imprisonment for the gangrape of a minor girl in 2012.
Bibhuti Khesang, judge of fast track court, North Dinajpur, found them guilty in the case and also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 each on them.
According to prosecution, the girl had gone to a shop on February 27 that year near the house of 64-year-old Jyotish Bhowmik who, with the pretext of giving the girl a mobile, took her to the back of a plywood mill at Bogram under Raiganj police station at about 4 PM.
Bhowmik, a leader of motor workers, along with Anil Saha (41) and Sujit Saha (35), driver and khalasi of a bus respectively, raped her several times during the night.
At dawn, they abandoned the girl near Siliguri More at NH-34.
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First Published: Jan 09 2014 | 8:56 PM IST

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