A court today sentenced five persons to 20 years in jail for kidnapping and raping two sisters here in 2014.
Additional Sessions Judge Ram Kumar Singla handed down the sentence and also imposed a fine of Rs one lakh each on the accused.
They would undergo an additional two-year sentence if they do not pay the fine.
The two girls from Dala village in Punjab's Gurdaspur district went for a morning walk on March 10, 2014, when five youths in a car kidnapped them and took them to an unknown place where they were gang-raped.
The accused were arrested and a case under IPC sections 376, 363, 366, and 120, was registered against Parveen Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Lakhwinder Singh, Rinku, and Rakesh Kumar, all residents of Gurdaspur.
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