Nine suspects in a gangrape case were sent to life imprisonment till death in a special court in Gaya, Bihar. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) court delivered the judgement in a case of gangrape of a woman and her minor daughter in 2018. Two of those accused, are under trial.
The convicts were also slapped with a fine of Rs 32,500 each. The state government will also pay Rs 80,000 as compensation to the survivors, the court added.
In Gaya’s Sondiha village near Konch police station, a woman and her minor daughter were gang-raped on June 13, 2018. The survivors had allegedly robbed a few students.