Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench awards ten years imprisonment to Gaurav Shukla in Ashiana gang rape case.
The incident happened on May 2, 2005, after a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped, burnt with cigarette butts before being gang raped in a moving car by six youths.
The trial of Gaurav Shukla, who is the nephew of former Samajwadi Party MLC Arun Shanker Shukla ‘Anna,’ was delayed as he first moved Juvenile Justice Board, then the sessions court followed by the High Court and Supreme Court claiming that he was a minor when the incident had taken place on May 2, 2005.
Of the 5 other accused, 2 were convicted in 2007, one in 2013 while two others died the same year.