Chandigarh: A court today sentenced to life imprisonment two brothers held guilty of raping their 10-year- old niece who delivered a child in August after the Supreme Court rejected a plea seeking termination of her pregnancy.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Poonam R Joshi, while pronouncing the quantum of sentence, also imposed a fine of Rs 3.05 lakh each in the case.
“The court today pronounced life imprisonment for both the brothers in the rape case,” said cousel Manjit Singh who represented the elder brother. Public prosecutor Atul Sethi said, “They will stay in jail till death.”