Teen duo convicted for Mumbai gang-rapes
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A MUMBAI court convicted two teenage boys yesterday over separate gang-rapes that shocked the city in a verdict that came days after an Indian minister said juvenile suspects should be treated as adults in rape cases.
Two 17-year-olds were found guilty — one over the gang-rape of a photographer and another over the gang-rape of a telephone operator in the same abandoned mill compound in the city last year, public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
He said the pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would be sent to a reform institution in Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, for three years.
“They should keep good behavior and vocational guidance will be given to them,” Nikam added.
Three men were in April ordered to hang for their involvement in both the gang-rape cases, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year.
Maneka Gandhi, minister for women and child development, said on Sunday that juveniles accused of rape should be treated on a par with adults. “For premeditated murder, rape, if we bring them into the purview of the adult world, then it will scare them,” she said in the southern city of Chennai.
A series of mass protests over the levels of sexual violence in India, sparked by the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi late in 2012, prompted the government to amend the law and allow the death penalty for repeat rape offenders.
A fourth man has been jailed for life over the telephone operator’s rape and a fifth over the photographer’s.
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