A special court in Rohtak has sentenced seven men to death for the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a young, mentally challenged woman. One of the accused, a 17-year-old, is being tried by the Juvenile Justice Board of Haryana.
On December 18, the judge, Seema Singhal, pronounced the men -- including Nepal national Santosh Kumar -- guilty of gang-rape, unnatural sex, murder and destruction of evidence. The quantum of punishment was declared on Monday.
The savagery of the Rohtak attack had been a reminder of the Delhi gang-rape case, in which a 23-year-old woman was assaulted and brutally tortured in a moving bus on December 16, 2012. There too, one of the convicts was a juvenile.
The verdict in the Rohtak case comes at a time when protests are being held for changes in the Juvenile Justice Act following the release of the youngest convict in the Delhi gang-rape case.
Women at a Rohtak village protesting the brutal gang-rape and murder.
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