Two President’s bodyguards get life term for rape

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New Delhi: Two armymen, members of the President’s Bodyguards, were on Thursday sentenced to life term for gang-raping a college girl here in 2003 by the Delhi High Court which called their act as a ‘moral turpitude of extreme depravity’.

Two of their accomplices were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for the gangrape at Buddha Jayanti Park near Rashtrapati Bhavan.

“They were military men and in uniform in broad day-light committed rape of a young girl, who was completely helpless before them. They have exhibited moral turpitude of extreme depravity by subjecting the teenage prosecutrix to rape and making her a victim of their physical lust,” the court said, sentencing Harpreet Singh and Satyender Singh to life sentence. (IANS)

 

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