An Indian courts ordered three men to ” be hanged by the neck till death” after they were convicted of multiple gang-rapes.
These are the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year.
A series of mass protests over the levels of sexual violence prompted the government to amend the law last year and allow for harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty for repeat offenders.
Mohammed Salim Ansari, 28, Vijay Mohan Jadhav, 19, and Mohammed Kasim Hafeez Shaikh, 21 were sentenced on Friday. They had been found guilty of two attacks in July and August last year at the same abandoned mill compound in Mumbai, including an attack on a photographer that made global headlines as well as the gang-rape of an 18-year-old phone operator.
Unlike Pakistan convicts sentenced to death in India are actually executed.
