A Delhi court on Monday held five persons guilty in the Danish woman gangrape case.
Argument of the quantum of sentence to be awarded to the convicts will take place on June 9.
Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar held them guilty.
Seeking their conviction, the prosecution argued that it had brought sufficient evidence on record against the accused persons.
Special Public Prosecutor in the case, Atul Srivastava, argued that it was a rarest of rare rape cases as there was also an >eye-witness to the incident .
A security guard had seen the accused persons assault the victim from a distance of five feet. He also identified them in the court, the Prosecutor added.
Media pressure
Counsel for the accused submitted that the police had implicated them under media pressure.
He also submitted that the eye-witness had been planted by the police.
The five accused are Mahendra alias Ganja, Mohd Raja, Raju, Arjun, Raju Chakk. All of them are in judicial custody.
The Delhi Police have charged the accused persons with robbing and gangraping the 52-year-old woman at knife point after dragging her to a deserted place near the Divisional Railway Officers’ Club, a few 100 meters from the New Delhi Railway station.
