A Mumbai court convicted four men on Thursday over the gang-rape of a photographer on assignment in the city last year in a widely publicised case. The court found the men guilty of raping the 22-year-old in August last year at an abandoned mill compound, where she had gone to take photos with a male colleague.
Mohammed Salim Ansari, Siraj Rehmat Khan, Vijay Mohan Jadhav and Mohammed Kasim Hafeez Shaikh, also known as Kasim Bangali, aged between 18 to 27 at the time of their arrest, were in the south Mumbai court to hear the verdict.
Sentencing is expected Friday, with the men facing up to life in prison.
“It’s going to send a strong signal to would-be offenders,” Himanshu Roy, who was joint police commissioner at the time of the attack, told the media
A fifth accused, a teenager, is being tried separately by a juvenile court.
