Five persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow on Monday for looting, assaulting and abducting two Army trainee officers as well as their two female friends and gang-raping one of them.
The incident, which took place at Jaam Gate on the outskirts of Indore on Sept 11 last year, had hit national headlines. The convicts, Anil Barod (27), Pawan Wasuniya (23), Ritesh Bhabhar (25), Rohit Girwal (23) and Sachin Makwana (25), have been ordered to pay Rs 50,000 to the gangrape survivor and Rs 10,000 each to the other three victims. The sixth accused, who is a minor, is being tried in the juvenile court.
“Two trainee Army officers of Infantry School, Mhow, had gone to Jaam Gate with two female friends late night on Sept 11. There, six persons attacked them, threatened them with a pistol, and thrashed them with sticks. They demanded Rs 10 lakh from them and asked one trainee officer and a female friend to go to Infantry School to arrange the amount,” special public prosecutor Sandhya Uike said.
In the meantime, they confined the other trainee officer and a female friend, who was gangraped by Ritesh Bhabhar and Anil Barod, Uike added.
