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Saturday, June 11, 2016
Indian men given life for gang-rape of Danish tourist
Five Indian men were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for raping a
Danish tourist in the heart of New Delhi's tourist district in 2014, in a
case that reignited worries about sexual violence against women in
India.
The men, all in their twenties, were found guilty by a Delhi court on
Monday for robbing and raping the 52-year old Dane at a secluded spot
close to New Delhi railway station.
"All the five convicts have been sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment for their offences,"
The Dane was walking through an area of narrow lanes near Delhi's
Paharganj district, a tourist area packed with backpacker hotels, on the
evening of Jan. 14, 2014, when she asked a group of men for directions
to her hotel.
The men then lured the woman to an area near New Delhi railway station
where they raped her and robbed her at knife-point, the prosecution said
in its chargesheet.
India was shaken into deep soul-searching about entrenched violence
against women after the fatal gang-rape in December 2012 of a female
student on a bus in New Delhi.
The crime, which sent thousands of Indians onto the streets in protest
against what many saw as the failure of authorities to protect women,
encouraged the government to enact tougher jail sentences for rapists.
Police accused nine men of attacking the Danish woman in 2014. Three are
juveniles being tried in a separate court while a fourth died during
the trial.
Lawyer D.K. Sharma, representing the five convicted men, said his clients would appeal against the verdict.
(Reporting by Suchitra Mohanty; Writing by Tommy Wilkes; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
