Two men were sentenced to death by a local court today for gang-raping and murdering an elderly woman in a village on the outskirts of the city over a year ago.
Mehtab and Sushil alias Bhoora were given death sentence by Additional District and Sessions Judge Amit Sirohi after they pleaded guilty of gang-raping and killing the 60-year-old woman in the forests of Sabawala village in Sahaspur area of Dehradun district in December, 2012, Public Prosecutor J K Joshi said.
After convicting the duo under different sections of the IPC and the SC/ST Act the judge ordered that they be sent to the gallows, Joshi said.
