New Delhi: A Delhi court Monday awarded life imprisonment to five men convicted in the Dhaula Kuan gang-rape, calling them "psychopaths" with no regard for the honour of women and a "threat to society".

"It is the demand of justice that they (convicts) should be kept from the society as long as possible," said Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat. 

The judge also held that the crime committed by them is "intensively grave, serious and odious in nature".

The five convicts - Shamshad ali as Khutkan, Usman alias Kale, Shahid alias Chhota Billi, Iqbal alias Bada Billi and Kamruddin -- were found guilty of abducting and gang raping a 30-year-old call centre executive in Delhi in 2010.