Calcutta High Court acquits 1 and dismisses the death penalty for others in connection to the 2013 Kamduni gang rape and murder

The Calcutta High Court acquitted one of the six accused on Friday and sentenced two others to life imprisonment in connection to the 2013 rape and murder of a college student in Kamduni, West Bengal. The judgment was delivered by the division bench of judges Joymalaya Bagchi and Ajay Kumar Gupta.



Three of the six accused, Saiful Ali, Ansar Ali, and Amin Ali, were found guilty and sentenced to death by a session court in Kolkata in 2016. A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed the death penalty and absolved Amin Ali of all charges. Saiful Ali and Ansar Ali, who were previously sentenced to death, have now received life sentences.



Previously given life sentences by the lower court, the other three convicts, Imanul Islam, Aminul Islam, and Bholanath Naskar were released by the division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday, stating that they had already spent ten years in incarceration since the investigation into their case began. Aggrieved by the judgment, the victim's parents have decided to appeal to the Supreme Court against the order passed by the Calcutta High Court.



In June 2013, a 20-year-old college girl was abducted, gang raped and murdered in West Bengal’s Kamduni. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) first named nine people in the charge sheet. However, the lower court eventually acquitted three of them, and the remaining six were sentenced.

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