Mumbai: Three common convicts in two gangrapes at Shakti Mills in Mumbai sentenced to death by Mumbai court today for repeated offence.
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Vijay Jadhav, Kasim Bengali and Salim Ansari are the first to be sentenced to death under Section 376 (E) of the Indian Penal Code&nbsp;for repeat offenders, which was brought in force along with major changes in the law after the fatal gangrape of a young para-medical student in Delhi in December, 2012.
"Any leniency in this case would be a travesty of justice. Life term will not be justice, it will be inadequate," the court said.
Principal Sessions Judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi delivered the much-awaited judgment in the case, sentencing the three to death penalty for repeated offences of gangrape - committed on July 31 and August 22, 2013, said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/jun/Shakti-Mills-accused.jpg" alt="Shakti Mills accused" /> Shakti Mills gangrape accused, from left to right: Chand Sattar Sheikh, Vijay Jadhav, Salim Ansari, Kasim Shaikh alias Bengali, Siraj Rehman
The fourth convict Siraj Rehman was awarded life term in the photojournalist case.
The 18-year-old telephone operator was gangraped on the premises of Shakti Mills in July last year a month before the photojournalist was brutalised on August 22.
The three men have already been sentenced to life imprisonment in that case.&nbsp;
The 22-year-old photo journalist of a magazine was gangraped by Vijay Jadhav, Kasim Bengali, Salim Ansari, Siraj Rehman and a minor boy when she had gone to the Shakti Mills compound in the Central Mumbai with a male colleague on an assignment.
The prosecution slapped the repeat offender charge against the three convicts so that they invite stringent punishment.

Three men found guilty of gang-raping two women in the abandoned Shakti Mills in 2013 have been sentenced to death by the court

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