AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court
on Saturday upheld life imprisonment of five out of six teachers for
repeatedly raping a 19-year-old Dalit girl student of their college in
Patan.
The high court reduced punishment of the sixth teacher from life term to ten years' imprisonment.
A two-judge Bench of Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice Z K Saiyed confirmed the life imprisonment for Manish Parmar, Mahendra Prajapati, Ashwin Parmar, Kiran Patel and Suresh Patel — all teachers of Patan's government-run Primary Teachers' Training College (PTC) — but reduced the term of the sixth convict, Atul Patel.
A fast track court in Patan in 2009 had sentenced all six teachers to life term.
The high court reduced punishment of the sixth teacher from life term to ten years' imprisonment.
A two-judge Bench of Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice Z K Saiyed confirmed the life imprisonment for Manish Parmar, Mahendra Prajapati, Ashwin Parmar, Kiran Patel and Suresh Patel — all teachers of Patan's government-run Primary Teachers' Training College (PTC) — but reduced the term of the sixth convict, Atul Patel.
A fast track court in Patan in 2009 had sentenced all six teachers to life term.