5 men sentenced to death for gang rape and murder of teen

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5 men sentenced to death for gang ***** and ******* of teen

A court in India has sentenced five men to death for the gang ***** and ******* of a teenager as well as the killing of her father and toddler-aged niece.

The crime was committed in January 2021 when the men offered the girl and her family — all members of a disadvantaged tribal community in the central state of Chhattisgarh — lifts on their motorbikes while they were waiting for public transport.

They later clubbed the teenager’s father to death as he attempted to stop the ***** and killed her three-year-old niece, public prosecutor Sunil Kumar Mishra told AFP.

The last victim was found unconscious by villagers several days later and died on her way to hospital.

Five men were found guilty of the ***** and triple ******* “and condemned to death,” Mishra said on Thursday, the day after the sentence was published by the court.

A sixth man “was found guilty of association in crimes, but his involvement in ***** was not proved, so he was sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his life for killings,” he added.

India imposes the death penalty, although it is rarely carried out in practice.

An average of nearly 90 rapes a day were reported in 2022 in the country of 1.4 billion people, but activists say many more go unreported.

A court in the eastern city of Kolkata

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this week after he was found guilty of raping and murdering a 31-year-old doctor last year. The family of the doctor broke into tears, saying they were “shocked” at the sentence and had hoped her ********* would be hanged.

Members of the citizen forum including doctors walk in a rally protesting a ***** and ******* of a resident doctor in a government hospital early August, in Kolkata, India, Oct. 1, 2024. / Credit: Bikas Das / AP

The discovery of her bloodied body at a state-run hospital in August stoked

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at the chronic issue of violence against women.

The gruesome nature of the attack drew comparisons with the

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 of a young woman on a Delhi bus, which also sparked weeks of nationwide protests. Four men convicted of the bus attack were

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Last week, more than four dozen men were arrested for the

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, who said around 60 men targeted her in the southern state of Kerala over several years.

The men accused of the attacks include a childhood friend of the girl, along with neighbors and family friends, police told CBS News’ partner network, 

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. There are at least five students from her college and former classmates from her school among the accused, according to Indian outlet 

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The alleged abuse came to light last month when a team of counselors working under a government program visited her house.

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