Over seven months after the gangrape of two women including a photojournalist in the abandoned Shakti Mills compound here, five persons were today held guilty by a local court which will pronounce the quantum of punishment tomorrow.
	The court convicted the five men for gangrape, criminal conspiracy, common intention, unnatural sex, criminal intimidation, wrongful restraint, assault, destruction of evidence under IPC and other relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.
      A total of seven persons including two minors, were arrested in connection with the two gangrapes involving a telephone operator and a photojournalist in July-August 2013. Three of the accused are common to both the cases.
     Principal sessions court judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi convicted Vijay Jadhav, 19, Mohammad Qasim Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali, 21 and Mohammad Ansari, 28, in both the cases. while Siraj Khan was found guilty in the photojournalist gangrape case (on August 22) and Mohammad ...


<span dir="ltr">Four men convicted for the gang-rape of a telephone operator at Shakti Mills were today sentenced to life imprisonment by the sessions court.</span><br />
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Three of them were also found guilty yesterday of gang-raping a 22-year-old photographer at the same deserted Shakti Mills compound. The sentence in that case has been adjourned till March 24.

4 get life imprisonment for gang-rape of telephone operator in Shakti Mills

Three of them were yesterday also found guilty of raping a photojournalist

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