New Delhi: The verdict on the Bijal Joshi rape case is out.
All the five accused - Sajal Jain, Sugam Jaiswal, Ashok Jaiswal, Chandan Jaiswal and Karan Jain - have been awarded life imprisonment.
An Ahmedabad sessions court on Friday had convicted all of the five accused, while seven others were aquitted. The case had taken the country by storm back in 2004.
Twenty-four-year-old Bijal Joshi committed suicide on January 7, 2004 after she was gang-raped and tortured by her boyfriend Sajal Jain and his friends.
Sajal Jain, 32, a father of two, had befriended Bijal Joshi and invited her to Hotel Ashok Palace in Ahmedabad to celebrate the New Year. There he raped her along with four of his friends on December 31, 2003.
In a suicide note which Bijal left behind, she named Sajal and his four friends for raping and torturing her. Her body had borne several bite marks.
Sajal is son of industrialist and owner of Delhi's Apollo Millennium Hospital, S K Jain.
He was arrested on charges of rape and abetting suicide from Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, where he was admitted in the ICU feigning food poisoning to try and evade arrest. He has been in police custody since then.
Bijal - who had filed a police complaint against Sajal and his friends - killed herself for she believed the police were favouring the accused.
Six policemen, including an inspector of Shahibaug police station, were suspended for their laxity in the case in 2004.
(With inputs from agencies)
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