The bench was seized of criminal appeals filed by Ashwin Donode (28), Anil Ingle (35), Roshan Ingle (35), Pundlik Bhoyar (34) and Mohammad Afroz Pathan (38) challenging the order passed by a sessions court in Nagpur on October 23, 2018.
The sessions court had convicted all of them under charges of gangrape (376D), kidnapping (366), common intention (34) and criminal intimidation (506) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
As per the prosecution case, the victim, a convent school teacher along with a male friend was standing near a Highway in Nagpur at around 8 pm on December 1, 2014 when the accused, who were on their bikes, stopped and enquired as to what she was doing with the boy on the highway.
They posed themselves as policemen. When she asked for their identity cards, the men forcibly made her sit on her motorbike and her friend was made to sit on another bike. They then threatened them at knife point and asked them to co-operate.
Sensing the threat, her friend escaped and ran to a nearby police station seeking help but by then the girl was taken to a forest area and was raped.
Source: Barandbench
