A court here has sentenced two men, including an engineering college student, to life imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl in January 2013.
The prosecution case was that the girl hailing from a poor family and studying in a government higher secondary school in Puducherry was waiting at a bus terminal in neighbouring Villianoor on January 1, 2013 when a bus conductor informed her that her mother had met with an accident and had been hospitalised.
The girl accompanied him to see her mother when the other accused, an engineering student, joined them.
The took her to a village in Villupuram, about 40 km from Villianoor, committed the crime and later left her at the bus terminal there in the night.
A case was registered against them under IPC sections 366 (kidnapping) and 376 (rape) and they were arrested.
Principal District and Sessions Judge C V Karthikeyan pronounced the judgement in the case here yesterday sentencing the duo to life imprisonment.
