Indian court sentences three to death for fatal gang-rape

An Indian court yesterday sentenced three men to death for abducting and raping a 19-year-old woman whose mutilated body was found days later, reports said.
The court in New Delhi said the three men, all aged in their 20s, should receive the harshest sentence for the 2012 attack because their crimes fell into the "rarest of rare" category under Indian law.
"Death to all three," presiding judge Virender Bhat was quoted by the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency as saying.
The father of the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, welcomed the judgement, saying he has been so consumed with fighting for justice for his daughter that he has been unable to hold down a job.
"I fought a lone battle for two years, and it has paid off," the father, 45, who was in court to hear the sentences, told AFP.
The government toughened laws on sexual violence against women in March last year, following outrage at the fatal gang-rape of a student on a Delhi bus in December 2012.
Four adults were sentenced to death last year over that attack, a crime that sparked seething anger about the treatment of women in India.
The new laws allow for the death penalty in cases where a rape victim dies from the attack or is left in a vegetative state.
The woman, who worked as an assistant with a private company in the megacity of Gurgaon on Delhi's outskirts, was dragged into a car near her home in February 2012 before being gang-raped, PTI said.