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Mumbai Photojournalist gangrape: Court allows recalling of 3 witnesses

India TV News Desk [Published on:01 Apr 2014, 8:21 PM]
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Mumbai: A session's court trying the Shakti Mills photojournalist gang rape case today allowed defence's application which sought recalling and examining three witnesses in connection with the additional charge framed against three common convicts in the case.  


The court had last month framed an additional charge under section 376 (e) (punishment for repeated offence of rape) of IPC which attracts the maximum penalty of capital punishment.

Kasim Bengali, Vijay Jadhav and Mohammed Salim Ansari are the common accused who is also convicted in the telephone operator gang rape case.

The telephone operator was gangraped on the premises of Shakti Mills about a month before the brutalisation of the photojournalist.

“The court has allowed the recalling of three witnesses and they will be examined tomorrow”, said special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.

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