Delhi High Court has upheld life imprisonment awarded by a trial court to five convicts in a 2010 Dhaula Kuan…
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Delhi High Court has upheld life imprisonment awarded by a trial court to five convicts in a 2010 Dhaula Kuan gang-rape case.
The appeals of the convicts in gang-rape of a 30-year-old BPO woman executive from Mizoram were dismissed by a bench comprising Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice PS Teji. The court observed that not only was the victim’s testimony sufficient, her deposition was also corroborated by her employer and a friend who was with her when she was abducted and subsequently gang-raped.
The court ruled that prosecution had established from the victim’s testimony that those convicted had abducted the woman in a pick-up van on the night of 23-24 November 2010 near Sharma Automobiles in Moti Bagh, South Delhi, and indulged in gang-rape in the moving vehicle.
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All the convicts ~ Usman alias Kale, Shamshad alias Khutkan, Shahid alias Chhota Billi, Iqbal alias Bada Billi and Kamruddin alias Mobile~ hail from Mewat region of Haryana.
Observing that it saw no reason to take a view different from that of the trial court, the bench said, “In our considered view, the testimony of the prosecutrix is natural, reliable, credible and trustworthy, free from any kind of glitches. She in simple language narrated the incident at the time of her deposition before the trial court and her testimony has duly been corroborated by her friend and employer.”
The trial court had convicted and sentenced the five men to life imprisonment in October 2014 with the observation that the “psychopaths” needed to be kept away from society as long as it was possible. Their offence showed that even after being married and having children, the five “were on the prowl, looking for a prey to satiate their sexual lust.”
The victim was abducted when she was on way back home from office in Gurgaon. She was taken to Mangolpuri, gang-raped and then left to fend for herself at an isolated place.
Since then the victim has returned to her native state of Mizoram.
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