Muzaffarnagar: Five men on Thursday was awarded 10 years imprisonment by a special court for raping and killing a woman and murdering her cousin brother in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district. The alleged rape incident occurred at Kurthal village under Budhana police station area in the district on June 6, 2014.

Prosecutor Sandeep Singh said that police had booked the five accused under the Gangster Act after they were found involved in a case of gang-rape and double murder. The girl was raped and murdered. Her cousin brother, who also accompanied her, was also murdered after he opposed the assault.