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September 3, 2013

Teen Sentenced to 3 Years in Gang-Rape Case That Ignited India 
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A juvenile court in India has delivered the first conviction in a
gang-rape case that ignited mass protests in December. The rape victim,
Jyoti Singh Pandey, died two weeks after she and a male companion were
beaten on a bus in New Delhi. On Saturday, an unnamed 18-year-old, who
was 17 at the time of the attack, was sentenced to three years in
juvenile detention following his conviction for rape and murder. The
sentence is the maximum allowed for youth offenders, but the victim's
family and women's rights activists decried it as too lenient. Four
adult men remain on trial and could face the death penalty.

 

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