A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Thursday its order on the quantum of sentence against two men convicted for raping a five-year-old girl in east Delhi in 2013.
The court had on January 18 convicted Manoj Shah and Pradeep Kumar.
In the gruesome incident at Gandhi Nagar on April 15, 2013, the convicts had shoved objects in the victim's private parts and abandoned her in a room, believing she was dead. The child was rescued 40 hours later on April 17.
In an over 100-page judgment, Additional Sessions Judge Naresh Kumar Malhotra had said: "In our society, minor girls are worshipped as a goddess on certain occasions, but in the present case, the victim child, who was aged about five years at time of incident, had experienced exceptional depravity and extreme brutality."