Life term for prime accused in med student rape in Delhi
2010-02-08 [13:02:12 hrs] | | The prime accused in the 2002 Maulana Azad Medical College student rape case has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court on Monday.
A bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog upheld the trial court verdict which had sentenced the accused, Rahul to life imprisonment, observing that he had acted ‘not only as a beast but even acted savage’.
The court however, acquitted the other convict Amit on charges of rape and directed the police to release him as he had already undergone seven years of imprisonment.
The convicts- Rahul and his accomplice Amit, were held guilty of raping a medical student by a trial court in January 2005.
The victim, a fourth-year student of the Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), was raped at knife point on the terrace of the Mughal monument ‘Khooni Darwaza’ in central Delhi on November 15, 2002.
The trial court had awarded Rahul and Amit life imprisonment and acquitted two other accused, Ashok, of the charge of harbouring the accused, and Mohan Lal, of the charge of dishonestly receiving stolen property from the accused.
The Delhi police had in 2003 filed a chargesheet against four persons- Rahul, Amit, Mohan Lal and Ashok, in the case which had hogged headlines for weeks.
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