Just in: The Bombay High Court has found three convicts guilty under the amended section 376 (E) of the Indian Penal Code, which came into force after the Nirbhaya case in New Delhi in December 2012. Under 365 (E) repeat offenders can get the death penalty. The court said it has established that three of the convicts were repeat offenders. They have already been sentenced to life in jail.

The sessions court had convicted five men in the Shakti Mills photojournalist gang-rape case and the Shakti Mills telephone operator gang-rape case. Three of the five convicted were involved in both cases and the prosecution had moved the court to allow charges to be framed under section 376(E) against them, which the court allowed.