A local court will frame charges on March 27 against the main accused in the sensational Ashiana gangrape case after holding that he was a major at the time of committing the crime.
After a 10-year-long legal battle, Additional District Judge Rajendra Singh had on March 11 termed the accused Gaurav Shukla as a major at the time when the 13-year-old girl was gangraped by six persons in Ashiana locality here.
The court was of the opinion that March 14, 1987 was the original date of birth of the main accused, who is nephew of a former SP MLA.
The juvenile justice board had on March 21, 2014 also termed the main accused as a major against which he appealed in the sessions court saying that he was minor.
The incident occurred on May 2, 2005 when the girl was kidnapped, gangraped and brutally tortured.
