The trial judge yesterday sentenced four convicts to life imprisonment for gang-raping a 19-year-old telephone operator last July in the desolate Shakti Mills Compound. A minor also accused in the case is yet to be tried in the case and stands to get punishment for a minimum three years.

The sentence for the convicts in the case of the gang rape of the 23-year-old photojournalist will be decided on March 24. Three of the convicts who were given life sentences yesterday have been convicted in the photojournalist’s rape case as well.