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Five sentenced to life imprisonment for gangrape

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Press Trust of India Midnapore (WB)
Five youths were today sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for gangrape of a girl.

District and Sessions Judge Kamal Dey sentenced Goutam Das, P Praveen Kumar, Somnath Chakraborty, Y Bhaskar and Kalidas Pattanaik to life term for gangrape of a class-XI on September 8, 2012.

Two other accused were acquitted for want of evidence and another is still absconding.

The girl was raped by the youths at a school at Kharagpur when she was returning home after her tuition classes.

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First Published: Aug 07 2013 | 11:25 PM IST

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