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Mandsaur rape case: Both convicts shifted to Ujjain Central Jail, says prison official Sunil Sharma

An eight-year-old girl was abducted when she was waiting for her father outside her school in Mandsaur and gang-raped. The accused were sentenced to death on 21 August.

|Aug 23, 2018, 18:34:19 IST

The two men sentenced to death in the Mandsaur gang-rape case were shifted to Ujjain Central Jail on Thursday, an official said.[caption id="attachment_5030801" align="alignleft" width="380"]

Representational image. IBN[/caption]On 21 August, Additional District and Sessions Judge at Mandsaur, Nisha Gupta, awarded the death sentence to 20-year-old Irfan Mewati alias Bhaiyu and 24-year-old Asif Mewati, after convicting them of abducting and raping an eight-year-old girl.District Jail's top official Sunil Sharma said both convicts were shifted to Ujjain Central Jail, about 150 kilometres from Mandsaur on Thursday morning. "There is a rule that the convicts who are awarded a sentence of 10 years or more or the death penalty must be lodged in a central jail," Sharma said.An eight-year-old girl was abducted when she was waiting for her father outside her school in Mandsaur on 26 June and gang-raped. The rapists also tried to kill her by slitting her throat.The incident had led to state-wide outrage. After the pronouncement of judgement on Tuesday, Asif Mewati was slapped by an unidentified man while being taken out of the court.

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