Its death for the three repeat offenders Kasim Bengali, Vijay Jadhav and Mohammed Salim Ansari in the Shakti Mills gang-rape case of the photo journalist , which has been awarded sessions court in Mumbai. Awarding death penalty to the three, the court said, "Mumbai gang-rape accused have least respect for law. They don't have potential for reformation as per facts of case. The suffering that gang-rape survivor and her family has undergone is unparalleled," the court said.

Citing the "Exemplary and rarest of rare punishment is required in the case," the judge said, adding, crime violates all rights of survivor. Kasim Bengali, Vijay Jadhav and Mohammed Salim Ansari are the common accused who are also convicted and awarded Life sentence on March 21st 2014 in the telephone operator gang-rape case on the same premises of Shakti Mills in July last year just a month before the photojournalist was brutalised on August 22.


The 22-year-old photo journalist of a magazine was gang raped by Vijay Jadhav, Kasim Bengali, Salim Ansari, Siraj Rehman and a minor boy when she had gone to the Shakti Mills compound in the Central Mumbai with a male colleague on an assignment. The fifth accused, a minor in the telephone operator gang rape case, is being tried by the Juvenile Justice Board.