NEW DELHI: Five men were on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for gang-raping a 52-year-old Danish woman at knife-point near the New Delhi railway station two years ago.Additional sessions judge Ramesh Kumar awarded the jail term to convicts Mahender alias Ganja (25), Mohd Raja (25), Raju (23), Arjun (21) and Raju Chakka (30). "For the offence of section 376 D IPC, all the convicts are sentenced to life imprisonment," the judge said while pronouncing the order. After visiting several places, she returned to Delhi on January 13, 2014, and stayed in a hotel in Paharganj near the station. The next day when she was returning to her hotel, she lost her way and had asked one of the accused for directions when the men waylaid and gang-raped her.During the trial, the accused had claimed innocence. imprisonment till the remainder of natural life, saying the crime was committed in a barbaric and inhuman manner.Legal aid counsel Dinesh Sharma, who represented the convicts, had sought leniency for them saying they belong to poor background.The victim had come here on January 1, 2014, and stayed for a couple of days before leaving for Agra.

Source: Times of India June 10, 2016 10:47 UTC