Delhi court convicts four men nine years after woman's gang rape at knife-point

A Delhi court has convicted four men for the gang-rape of a 35-year-old woman at knife-point, nine years after the crime was committed, while observing that she completely submitted to the act as there was immediate threat to her children's lives.

The court said the four men -- Ramjan, Nasiruddin, Sheikh Jahangir and Shah Alam -- broke into the woman's house at night to commit robbery and raped the victim after threatening to kill her children if she raised an alarm.

Holding the four men guilty of rape under Section 376 of Indian Penal Code, Additional Sessions Judge Umed Singh Grewal said there were no injuries on the woman's body after the crime was committed as she had not resisted act because the perpetrators threatened to kill her children who were also held at knife-point.

"In that situation, no lady can be expected to oppose the misdeeds being committed with her. There was complete submission and hence, the prosecutrix did not suffer any injury and so, absence of any external ..