The verdict on Ashiana gang rape case of Lucknow likely to come today

Lucknow: The verdict in the 11-year-old infamous Ashiana Gangrape case of Lucknow is likely to be announced on Wednesday.

Earlier, the verdict was to come on February 9 but it could not come as petition related to main accused Gaurav Shukla was pending in the High Court.

• The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on March 18 last rejected the review petition of Gaurav Shukla.
• Judge Anil Kumar Shukla is hearing in the case.
• Gaurav had sought time to take the case to Supreme Court.
• Justice Sudhir Kumar Saxena while hearing the case said that verdict cannot be delayed in the view of filing a special litigation petition (SLP) in court.

The case so far:

• The HC had directed concerned officials to complete trial within three months.
• Gaurav Shukla raped the minor girl in May 2005 in Ashiana area of Lucknow district in Uttar Pradesh.
• He was declared an adult during the time of committing crime by the court in March 2015.

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Victim’s ordeal:

• The girl was abducted on May 2, 2005 by four youth in Ashiyana locality.
• They also beat her and burned her with cigarette butts.
• She was gang raped by a group of six in a moving car.
• She was repeatedly raped at a farm house of one of the accused.
• They even threatened the girl of dire consequences.
• She was dropped by them at a secluded street in night.
• She reached her home with the help of a passer by.
• Two accused Aman Bakshi and Bhartendu Mishra – were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 2007.
• Other accused, Saurabh Jain and Asif Siddiqui, died in a road accident while Faizan was awarded life term in January, 2013.
• The sentence against Gaurav is pending in the trial court.

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