Indian rapists sentenced to hang
Published:Friday | April 4, 2014 | 3:15 PM
A court in India has sentenced three men to hang, under a new law which carries the death penalty for those convicted of multiple sexual assaults.
The men were convicted of raping a photojournalist in Mumbai last year.
However, they were also among five men sentenced to life last month for raping another woman in a separate incident in the city.
The trio are the first to be tried and convicted under the tough new law aimed at repeat sexual offenders.
Today’s sentences were announced at a court in Mumbai where Judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi said that there needs to be zero tolerance for such incidents.
Scrutiny of sexual violence has grown in India ever since the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.
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