All thirteen convicted in the gangrape of a tribal woman at Labhpur in West Bengal were Saturday awarded 20 years rigorous imprisonment by a local court. Additional district and sessions judge Siddhartha Roychowdhury also ordered them to pay a fine of Rs 5,000 each failing which they would serve one more year of rigorous imprisonment.
All of the convicted hail from Subalpur village of Birbhum district as also the woman. The judge had, on Friday, pronounced all of them guilty under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 376(2)(g) (gangrape) of the IPC.
The 20-year-old tribal woman was gangraped at Subalpur village under Labhpur police station on January 21 earlier this year by the 13 men as a punishment for having an affair with a man from another community.
The punishment was awarded by a Kangaroo court in the village. A police complaint was lodged the next day against the 13 persons. The young woman was admitted to Suri hospital and after a week-long treatment, transferred to an NGO-run government approved home in Suri where she has lived ever since.
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