New Delhi, 27/6: The Delhi High Court has awarded 20 years imprisonment to two men for gang-raping a Nigerian woman in 2014, saying mere absence of traces of semen during the DNA analysis does not falsify the victim’s claim and penetration was sufficient to prove the offence of rape.
The high court modified the jail term of the two men from 30 years to 20 years noting that one of them was unmarried while the other has to look after his children and parents, and the possibility of their reformation cannot be ruled out.
The judgment is among the 65 delivered by separate division benches headed by Justice Mukta Gupta on Monday, a day before her retirement. She is retiring from the Delhi High Court on Tuesday after a 14-year stint as a judge. She was appointed to the Delhi High Court as an additional judge on October 23, 2009 and confirmed as a permanent judge on May 29, 2014.