Shakti mill gang rape: Editor of English daily to be examined as defence witness
February 24, 2014  23:18
A sessions court, conducting trial in the Shakti mill telephone operator gang rape case, today allowed defence lawyers to examine the editor of a city-based English daily as a witness.

"The defence has submitted a list of the witnesses to be examined by them, but for now the court has given permission to call the editor as a witness," said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. Police had arrested Mohammed Ashfaq Sheikh, Mohamed Kasim Hafiz Sheikh alias Kasim Bangali, Salim Ansari, Vijay Jadhav and a minor for raping the 18-year-old telephone operator on July 31 last year.

A charge sheet was filed against the four accused on October 8 while the trial of the juvenile was separated. In another case, a young journalist, interning with an English magazine, was gang raped by five persons, including a juvenile, on the same compound in August last year.
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