Karnataka court awards death penalty: 3 sentenced for gang-raping Israeli tourist

NEW DELHI: A civilian tribunal successful Karnataka connected Monday sentenced 3 men to decease for sexually assaulting an Israeli tourer and murdering a younker successful Koppal territory past year.The Gangavathi Civil Court pronounced the quantum of punishment, awarding superior punishment to the convict: Mallesh alias Handi Malla, Sharanabasava and Chaitanya Sai.

The tribunal had recovered them blameworthy connected February 7 and had reserved its bid connected sentencing for February 16.According to the prosecution, the transgression took spot adjacent Sanapur connected March 6 past twelvemonth and had drawn planetary attention, casting a shadiness implicit tourism successful the region.Public Prosecutor Nagalakshmi said that the incidental occurred erstwhile a homestay proprietor took a radical of tourists: Pankaj from Maharashtra, Bibhas from Odisha, Daniel from the United States, and an Israeli woman, for stargazing adjacent the Tungabhadra canal nether the limits of the Gangavathi agrarian constabulary presumption astatine astir 10.30 pm.At that time, the 3 accused allegedly arrived connected a motorcycle and picked up a combat implicit a fiscal dispute.“With an volition to rape these women, the convicts pushed the 3 men into the canal. To guarantee that they bash not travel out, they threw stones connected them. Later, they pack raped the home-stay proprietor and the Israeli national,” Nagalakshmi told reporters.She said Bibhas Kumar died owed to drowning successful the canal. “Pankaj did not cognize however to aquatics but Daniel saved him,” she added.

After the assault, the accused allegedly fled the spot with mobile phones, currency and a camera belonging to the victims.“It was a lawsuit of pack rape, murder, effort to murder, robbery and extortion. Hence the Judge Sadananda Nagappa Naik nether conception 103 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita gave them superior punishment. For the pack rape, the tribunal ordered imprisonment till their past breath,” the nationalist authoritative said.She added that the convicts person the close to entreaty against the condemnation successful a higher court.