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Friday, March 21, 2014

Life Sentence to Convicts of Shakti Mills Gangrape Case Friday March 21,2014


Four convicts in the Shakti Mills telecom operator gangrape case were on Friday March 21,2014 sentenced to life imprisonment by a Mumbai court.

The court, meanwhile, adjourned the hearing on the quantum of punishment to the convicts in the photojournalist gangrape case till March 24,2014

A total of 7 persons including 2 minors, were arrested in connection with the two gangrapes involving a telephone operator and a photojournalist in July-August 2013.

3 of the convicts are common to both the cases.

Principal sessions court judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi convicted  -
  • Vijay Jadhav(19)
  • Mohammad Qasim 
  • Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali(21)and
  • Mohammad Ansari( 28)
in both the cases
while Siraj Khan was found guilty in the photojournalist gangrape case (on August 22) and
Mohammad Ashfaque Shaikh, in the telephone operator gangrape case on July 31 ,2013
Two minors, one in each case, are being tried by the Juvenile Justice Board separately.

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