In India, 5 people who were accused of gang-raping and killing a teenager were sentenced to death
An Indian court has sentenced five people to death for the gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl and the murder of her father and infant niece.
The crime took place in January 2021 when the men escorted the girl and her family – all members of a disadvantaged tribal community – on their motorbike while waiting for public transport.
He later killed the teenager’s father when he tried to stop the rape and killed her three-year-old niece, state prosecutor Sunil Kumar Mishra told the agency.
The last victim died several days later when she was found unconscious by the villagers on her way to the hospital.
Five people found guilty of rape and triple murder have been “sentenced to death,” Mishra said on Thursday, the day after the verdict was announced by the court.
A sixth man “was found guilty of the crime, but his involvement in the rape was not proven, so he was sentenced to life in prison for murder,” he added.
India still carries the death penalty, although rarely in practice.
By 2022, an average of about 90 rapes will be reported in the country of 1.4 billion people, but rights activists say many more go unreported.
A court in East Kolkata city One man was sentenced to life in prison. This week after being found guilty of assaulting and killing a 31-year-old doctor last year. The doctor’s family shed tears saying they were shocked by the sentence and hoped the murderer would be hanged.
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Her bloodied body was found in a government-run hospital in August National anger and protest On the chronic issue of violence against women.
The horror of the attack It sparked weeks of nationwide protests, drawing comparisons to the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi bus. Four people accused of bus attack have been sentenced Done in March 2020.
More than four dozen people were arrested last week. Repeated sexual abuse of a teenagerIn the southern state of Kerala several years ago she was targeted by around 60 people.
The girl’s childhood friend, neighbors and family friends are among those charged in the attack, police told CBS News. BBC news. Among the accused are at least five students and former classmates from her college, an Indian newspaper reported. News minute.
The alleged abuse came to light when a group of counselors working under a government program visited her home.