New Delhi: Two suspended members of the elite President's Body Guards (PBG) were awarded rigorous life imprisonment by a Delhi court on Saturday in connection with the gangrape of a 17-year-old Delhi University student in the city's Buddha Jayanti Park in 2003.
Harpreet Singh and Satyender Singh, who were held guilty on the charge of gangrape, were awarded the maximum punishment of life imprisonment by Additional Sessions Judge S K Sarvaria.
The other two members of the prestigious Guards -- Kuldeep Singh and Manish Kumar -- were sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. They were absolved of the charge of gangrape, but convicted for robbery, kidnapping and helping their colleagues.
The crime was committed when the Delhi University student, along with her boyfriend Ashish, had gone to Buddha Jayanti park in the backyard of the Presidential Palace complex on October 6, 2003, to watch a programme of the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
She was detained and robbed by the four convicts before being raped by Harpreet and Satyender while the other two kept watch.
The pronouncement of the punishment came five days after the four bodyguards were found guilty.