A local court in Ahmednagar district on Friday awarded capital punishment to three men convicted of raping and murdering a minor girl in Parner Taluk in 2014.
The Ahmednagar District and Sessions Court sentenced Santosh Vishnu Lonkar (36), Mangesh Dattatrey Lonkar (30) and Dattatrey Shinde (27) to death by hanging for the heinous crime that occurred on August 22, 2014.
While pronouncing the verdict, Judge Suvarna Kevale stated that the victim was done to death with “extreme brutality”.
Earlier, pushing for maximum punishment, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam had said in court that the trio had conspired from the start to chase and molest the 15-year-old girl, who was on her way home to the Loni Mawala village in Parner.
Following the gang-rape, the convicts beat the minor to death using stones and sharp instruments. They later attempted to obscure evidence by smearing the body with wet mud.
