Justice Mridula Bhatkar dismissed the enchantment filed by Sunil Suryawanshi and Ramesh Mali, each residents of Ahmednagar in western Maharashtra, difficult their conviction for gangrape and the ten-year jail time period handed by a classes courtroom in March 2010.

As per the prosecution, the incident occurred on July 21, 2008 when the sufferer was returning house from work within the night and the accused duo waylaid her and forcibly took her to a close-by discipline the place they raped her for 2 hours and threatened to kill her if she screamed.

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She managed to flee from the spot and lodged a police grievance. Suryawanshi and Mali had been apprehended just a few days later.

Their lawyer argued there have been a number of discrepancies within the sufferer’s assertion and that she had not talked about about forcible sexual activity. According to protection, the sufferer couldn’t have seen the accused clearly as a result of it was night when the incident had occurred.

However, refusing to simply accept the protection’s rivalry, Justice Bhatkar mentioned, “the victim is a star witness in the case of rape. The prosecutrix has given a consistent and detailed evidence on the point of how and when and where the offense had taken place.”

“At the time of rape, the sufferer was a younger lady of 20 years who had married one yr again and was three months pregnant. It was gangrape. The appellants had repeatedly raped her for almost two hours.”

The choose famous the prosecution has proved its case in opposition to the 2 accused and therefore their enchantment in opposition to the conviction deserves to be dismissed.

The HC additionally rejected an utility filed by one of many convicts to cut back the Rs 50,000 wonderful which was imposed on him by a classes courtroom.