Bhopal student gangrape: four get lifetime imprisonment

Bhopal: A fast track court here on Saturday convicted four men and sentenced them to life in jail for raping a civil services aspirant on the night of October 31 this year.

Pronouncing her judgement 52 days after the crime took place, Judge Savita Dubey held all the four accused guilty and sentenced Golu Bihari, Amar Chotu, Ramesh and Rajesh, to imprisonment for the rest of their lives.All the convicted were present in the court when the judgement was pronounced.

Those guilty first tried to loot her and then gangraped her.She had a harrowing time getting her complaint registered in the police station till the time the case came to limelight following some discrepancies in medical report of the student.

The police initially refused to lodge the complaint but took action only after the woman and her parents found two of the men who assaulted her and dragged them to the police station.The Madhya Pradesh government then suspended five police officers and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered that the trial be conducted in a fast-track court. (UNI)