{"id":4189,"date":"2010-02-08T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:33:03","slug":"court-upholds-life-for-one-in-maulana-azad-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-upholds-life-for-one-in-maulana-azad-rape-case","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds life for one in Maulana Azad rape case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Monday upheld life imprisonment for one of the two accused in the 2002 gang rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) student.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that he acted \u201cnot only as a beast but also as a savage\u201d, the Delhi High Court Monday upheld life imprisonment for one in the 2002 gang rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) student. The other person held guilty by a lower court was set free.<\/p>\n<p>Upholding life imprisonment for Rahul, a division bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Suresh Kait said: \u201cHe (Rahul) acted not only as a beast but also as a savage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court, however, set the other person, Amit, free and said he had already served his punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s verdict came five years after a lower court ruled that both Rahul and Amit were guilty of raping a medical student.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a fourth year student at MAMC, was raped by the duo at knife point on the terrace of the Mughal monument Khooni Darwaza in central Delhi Nov 15, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court in 2005, had acquitted the other two people involved in the case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Monday upheld life imprisonment for one of the two accused in the 2002 gang rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court upholds life for one in Maulana Azad rape case  - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Delhi High Court Monday upheld life imprisonment for one of the two accused in the 2002 gang rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) student. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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