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Park Street gangrape case: Court convicts three accused

Two other accused in the case are still absconding

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Dec 10 2015 | 2:05 PM IST
Three accused in the infamous Park Street gangrape case were today convicted by a court here.

Two other accused in the case are still absconding.

Additional Sessions Judge Chiranjib Bhattacharya of City Sessions Court pronounced Ruman Khan, Naser Khan and Sumit Bajaj guilty of gangrape committed in February, 2012.

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The quantum of punishment will be announced tomorrow, the judge said while passing the order in-camera.

The accused were found guilty under sections 376 (2)(g) (gangrape), 120B (criminal conspiracy) 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of IPC, Chief Public Prosecutor Tamal Mukherjee said.

The police is, however, yet to apprehend the main accused Kader Khan and another accused named Ali.

The victim, who had appeared in public several times and said she had no inhibition in publishing her name, died of encephalitis in March this year.

The victim, when she was 40-year-old, had been picked up in a car in front of a night club at Park Street in the heart of the city on February 5, 2012, and gangraped inside the moving car before she was thrown off near a road crossing.

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First Published: Dec 10 2015 | 1:48 PM IST

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