Guntur Fifth Additional District & Sessions Court Judge K. Neelima on November 16 (Thursday) awarded two persons 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹20,000 each, after convicting them in a gang-rape case. The case was expedited by the police as a part of the Disha initiatives.
Palnadu district Superintendent of Police (SP) Y. Ravi Shankar Reddy told the media that the case pertained to the gang-rape of a woman hailing from Madhya Pradesh, who was travelling with her three-year-old son. The convicts took her away from the platform of Gurazala railway station where she was sleeping and gang-raped her on April 15, 2022.
The woman was supposed to board a train to Madhya Pradesh from Maharashtra on April 14, 2022 after visiting her aunt. She took a different train and reached Gurazala in Andhra Pradesh.