MUMBAI, DEC 7: The Bombay High Court on Monday confirmed the five year sentence on two persons from the Baramati district for the gangrape of a woman in 1989. Another accused, Raju Jadhav, was however acquitted by Justice S S Parkar.The Baramati Sessions Court had sentenced the three accused to five years of rigorous imprisonment in 1992. Against this order, the accused had appealed in the HC. Accordingly, the two accused, Sanjay Pansare and Bhau Jagtap, will be undergoing a five year rigorous imprisonment and will also be paying a fine of Rs 1,000. According to the state public prosecutor, the incident occurred at Baramati Vankar Vasti, Pimpalital, in the early hours of June 22, 1989 between 12 midnight to 3 am. The victim, Shobha Kukre, who had gone meet her uncle in Indore returned on 21st night and got off at the Daund railway station. Since there were no buses to take her to her village, she decided to stay over at a relative's place. At the Daund bus stop, she was accosted by the accused. Theythen took her to a nearby gymnasium and gangraped her, the victim recalled.
