Faridabad: A sessions court here has sentenced two persons to 20 years imprisonment for the gangrape of a Tanzanian woman nearly five years ago, PTI reported.
The woman was allegedly lured to a party and was gangraped, after which the police registered a case and arrested both the accused, the police said.
Additional Sessions Judge Purushottam Kumar on Tuesday sentenced Jaan and Aman to 20 years of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 2.02 lakh, they said.
According to the police, the case was registered at the Women's Police Station, NIT, Faridabad, on November 22, 2020. The victim said in her complaint that she is originally from Tanzania and has been living in Delhi for a long time. The woman was friends with Jaan.
She had alleged that on November 20, 2020, Jaan invited her to his house on the pretext of hosting a party. Jaan's friend, Aman, a resident of Prahladpur, Delhi, was already there. After the party, both the accused took her to a room and raped her, the FIR alleged.
The woman reported the matter to the police.
In another news, three persons were arrested for allegedly raping and murdering a 32-year-old woman at Kismathpur here, police said on Tuesday.
They were arrested on September 22 for kidnap, gangrape, sexual assault, and murder of the woman on September 14 under a bridge, a release from Cyberabad Police Commissionerate said.
On September 16, some local residents alerted the police after noticing the woman's body near bushes, and a case under relevant sections of BNS was registered at Rajendranagar police station, a police official said.
The victim, missing for three days, was spotted intoxicated near a pillar on September 14 by a 33-year-old man, who lured her into an auto-rickshaw, bought her beer and biryani, and sexually assaulted her near a function hall.
He then dropped her at Aramghar X Roads. Later, two auto-rickshaw drivers, aged 25 and 26, coerced her into their three-wheeler and drove to Kismathpur bridge, where they raped her, and when she resisted, one of them fatally assaulted her with sticks. They fled, leaving her body in the bushes, the release said.