A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on Monday sentenced five persons convicted in a 2016 gangrape case to life imprisonment, ANI reported.

The men – Juber alias Sunil, Sajid; Dharamvir alias Jitender, Naresh alias Sandip Baheliya and Sunil Kumar alias Sagar – had been found guilty on Saturday.

The five were held guilty of having carried out rape, dacoity and wrongful confinement in August 2016. They had held a family of six captive at gunpoint, and looted cash and jewellery. During the captivity, two, including a 13-year-old girl, had been raped.

The incident had sparked widespread outrage at the time.

The Allahabad High Court had transferred the probe in the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The CBI filed a chargesheet in November 2016 against three persons accused in the matter before the Additional District and Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge (POCSO Cases) in Bulandshahr. A supplementary charge-sheet was filed in April 2018 against six others.

One of them died in judicial custody while the trial was pending before the court.

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