The Additional District and Sessions judge of Jajpur sentenced three rapists for ten years of imprisonment on Tuesday for gang-raping a 22-year-old nursing student in a moving car seven years ago at village Bairi under the Barachana police station.
Pronouncing the verdict in the sensational case, Judge Bikram Pradhan convicted Nishikanta Pal (43), Sripati Nayak (57) and Sashikanta Das (42), headmaster of a school, and sentenced them to imprisonment under Sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of IPC for their crime on June 10, 2010.
After the incident, the victim girl had filed an FIR against the accused persons. After investigating the case, police arrested all the accused persons on the charges of gang-raping the girl.
As many as 18 witnesses, including the girl, deposed in the case in the court. After relying on the evidences of the girl and others and the medical report, the court convicted all the three accused persons, said Assistant Public Prosecutor Rajendra Nayak.