Hyderabad techie gangrape: Two cab drivers get 20 years RI

Hyderabad: A local court today convicted two cab drivers for the gangrape of a young woman software employee in October last year and sentenced them to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment. Satish and Venkateshwarlu, private car drivers (both aged around 25), were arrested by the Cyberabad Police on 22 October last year. Both the accused were found guilty of kidnapping and gangraping the young woman, and were convicted under relevant sections of IPC by the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court of Cyberabad (Ranga Reddy). [caption id=“attachment_1523919” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image[/caption] Public Prosecutor Nagaraju said the court sentenced Satish and Venkateshwarlu to 20 years RI under section 376 D, three years under section 363 and for one year under section 342 of IPC, besides imposing Rs 1,000 fine on each of them. All the sentences will run concurrently. The defence, in the meanwhile, said they would challenge the court order. According to the prosecution, the techie, working in a IT company in the city, was on her way to her hostel and was waiting to hire a vehicle near a shopping mall when the duo approached her and offered to drop her. Instead of dropping her at the hostel, they took her towards the Kolluru forest area in neighbouring Medak district and raped her. The duo were earlier booked by the Cyberabad Police on charges of kidnapping, gang rape, criminal intimidation, illegal confinement and other relevant charges under IPC. With the help of the NIA, the Cyberabad police had got the enhanced CCTV footage of the car passing through this route on the night the crime took place.