Three sentenced to 10 years in jail for rape

A local court today convicted three persons and sentenced them to ten years in jail for raping a college student in 2011.

D Saikumar, D Krishna and Mohammad Ghouse were sentenced by a sessions court in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, while three others were acquitted.

A Bed student was gang-raped near Shamirpet, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, in May 2011.

The victim was on her way to her village when the accused, all of them auto-rickshaw drivers, offered her lift in a rickshaw and took her to an isolated spot and raped her.