Orphanage founder-director gets death for gang-rape of inmates
March 21, 2013  18:16
Observing that the convict "was a menace to society," a local court in Mumbai today awarded the death sentence to the founder of an orphanage, located in Kalamboli area in Navi Mumbai and run by a private  organisation, Kalyani Mahila Bal Seva Sanstha, for the murder of an inmate and gang rape of five mentally-challenged girls, including three minors. 

One of the victims, suffering from tuberculosis, died after she was gang-raped. Hence, prime accused and director of orphanage Ramchandra Karanjule (54) faced additional murder charge and was convicted on this count. 

"He was a menace to society and life imprisonment will be highly inadequate in this case. The convict had no right to live in society for the heinous crime he had committed," said sessions judge P V Ganediwalla while awarding the capital punishment to Karanjule.
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