By IANS,
New Delhi : A city court is to pronounce Saturday the quantum of sentence on four members of the President’s Bodyguard who were convicted in the 2003 Buddha Jayanti Park gang rape case.
Harpreet Singh and Satender Singh were found guilty of raping a 17-year-old Delhi University student in Buddha Jayanti Park in 2003 while Kuldeep Singh and Manish Kumar were convicted for helping them in the crime.
Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria had Monday convicted the four under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code.
The four have been found guilty under sections 394 (robbery), 366 (kidnapping) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
However, Harpreet and Satender have also been convicted for gang rape under Section 376(2)(g) of the IPC.
The victim who had gone with her friend Ashish to the park near Rashtrapati Bhavan on Oct 6, 2003, was raped by Harpreet and Satender while the other two Kuldeep and Manish kept watch.
The prosecution, which examined 25 witnesses to establish the rape charge, said that the accused had raped the victim when she had gone to the park with her friend for sight-seeing.
The four first roughed up the girl’s friend and then took her to a secluded place inside the park where they raped her, the prosecution alleged.