: 2013 Shakti Mills rape case: Bombay HC commutes death penalties of three convicts to life sentence #IndiaNEWS The Bombay High Court on Thursday set aside the death sentences awarded to three persons
2013 Shakti Mills rape case: Bombay HC commutes death penalties of three convicts to life sentence #IndiaNEWS
The Bombay High Court on Thursday set aside the death sentences awarded to three persons convicted in the 2013 Shakti mills gangrape case, reported Bar and Bench. The High Court commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.The three men – Vijay Jadhav, Mohammed Kasim Bengali and Mohammed Salim Ansari – had been convicted in 2014 by a Mumbai session court for gangraping a 23-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai’s Shakti mills area. They were awarded death penalty on the ground that they were repeat offenders.On Thursday, a bench of Justices SS Jadhav and PK Chavan upheld the conviction by the sessions court but reduced the sentence.“Constitutional court cannot award punishment based on public opinion,� the High Court said. “While setting aside the death sentence, it may be said that we took counter majority view but constitutional court is to follow the procedure.�The High Court added that they convicted persons will not be entitled to parole or furlough.The caseFour men and a minor had raped a 23-year-old photojournalist inside the Shakti Mills compound on August 22, 2013. The Mumbai Police had arrested all the accused within a week.A month later, a 19-year-old telephone operator had approached the police to lodge a complaint about being gangraped by five men at the same location on July 31, 2013.Both women had...Read more
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