A Rajkot court on April 1 sentenced three accused to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for attempting to gang-rape a woman in May 2020.
According to the prosecution, the case dates back to May 2020, when accused Ravi Chauhan, Sagar Jala and Chirag Ravrani tried to rape the woman who had gone to get water from a tap in the village. The prosecution, through Additional Public Prosecutor Kartikeya Parekh, argued that Ravi and Chirag had admitted that they tried to rape the woman while Sagar was recording a video of the act on a mobile phone. The woman had also alleged that she had sex with him without her consent.
Dhoraji Additional Sessions Judge Rahul Mahesh Chander Sharma, in his judgment, observed that “during the recording of her (victim’s) testimony, the victim was apparently uncomfortable and she started crying on seeing the accused persons,” and added that the witnesses and the evidence on record After the investigation, it held that the act was done without consent and against the will of the victim.