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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Mumbai Shakti Mills Journalist Rape Case 3 repeat offenders guilty under Sec 376E of IPC Thursday April 03,2014

Mumbai City Sessions Court held on Thursday April 03,2014 that the 3 repeat offenders in the two Shakti Mills gangrape cases have been held guilty under section 376 (E) of the Indian Penal Code which stipulates a maximum punishment of death penalty.


The three are convicted of gangraping a photojournalist and a telephone operater at the deserted Shatki Mills compound in south Mumbai.

The three have already been awarded life imprisonment for the telephone operator's gangrape.

This is a landmark judgement since it is the first conviction under the amended section 376 (E).

The Mumbai Police had arrested a total of seven men for the two gangrapes. Two of them were juveniles and are being tried separately by the Juvenile Justice Board. The rest five were convicted by a Mumbai court, three of them for both gangrapes.

In the teleoperator case, four, including the three repeat offenders, were awarded life term.

The photojournalist case awaits judgement. The prosecution slapped the repeat offender charge against the three convicts so that they invite stringent punishment.

Note
All five accused involved in the two Shakti Mills gangrape cases have been convicted by a Mumbai court. The five have been convicted of rape, conspiracy, common intention and unnatural sex

On March 20, 2014 the sessions court convicted five adults — Vijay Jadhav, Qasim Sheikh alias Bengali, Salim Ansari, Mohammad Ashfak Shaikh and Siraj Sheikh — for the two gangrapes that occurred at the Shakti Mills in 2013 involving a telephone operator and a photojournalist. Of the five, three — Jadhav, Bengali and Ansari — were involved in both cases.

The two cases include the gangrape of a photojournalist on August 23, 2013 and of a telephone operator on July 21, 2013 at the Shakti Mills in Mumbai.

On the intervening night of the August 22 and 23, the Mumbai Police launched an unprecedented manhunt and five men were arrested, one of them being juvenile. The courage shown by the 22-year-old rape survivor (photojournalist) by giving a detailed statement aided the police in no small measure.

In a record 28 days, a 600-page chargesheet was filed and 41 witnesses deposed during the trial that lasted seven months

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