Two rickshaw pullers get life imprisonment for rape

New Delhi: A Delhi court has sentenced two rickshaw pullers to imprisonment for the remainder of their life for raping a woman here on the pretext of taking her home.

Refusing to show leniency, the court said they committed the heinous crime on a hapless woman who had lost her way.

Additional sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar held UP resident Ehsaan and Bihar resident Umesh Giri guilty and sentenced them to life imprisonment for remainder of their natural lives. “Instead of helping her, Ehsaan induced her to accompany him to the place of incident on the pretext of dropping her at her destination where his associate Giri joined him and they both in furtherance of their common intention committed gang rape on her,” the court said.

The court, which imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on the two convicts, said the amount shall be paid to the victim. It also took into consideration the brutality inflicted by the two men on the victim.

An FIR was registered in September last year on the allegation that the woman was raped by two rickshaw pullers at a bus stand near Mata Sundri College in Central Delhi.

The woman was living separately from her husband and two children. Following a quarrel with her brother, with whom she was residing in UP, the woman somehow ma-naged to reach New Delhi railway station.

At the station, accused Ehsaan assured her he would drop her to her de-stination but took her to a deserted place where co-accused Giri joined him in raping the woman.

During the trial, the duo claimed they were falsely implicated by the eye witness as he wanted to extort money.