5 convicted for raping mentally ill woman in Maharashtra

Press Trust of India  |  Thane 

Five people were convicted Friday for raping a mentally ill woman in 2016 in Maharashtra's district.

The 22-year-old woman was raped by the accused on January 8, 2016, said.

She had first gone to the house of a fruit vendor who raped her, then an who promised to drop her home but took her to a desolate place and called three of his friends and raped her, the APP said.

After she narrated her ordeal to her mother, a case was filed at station, Moholkar said.

The five men who have been convicted are fruit vendor (43), (41), (26), Kamlesh Pintu Chotelal Gupta (37) and (43).

Seventeen witnesses were examined during the trial, Moholkar said.

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First Published: Fri, April 12 2019. 16:35 IST