India court orders first death sentences for multiple rapes


Double gang-rape convict Mohammed Salim Ansari looks out from a police van as he is taken to court in Mumbai. -AFP

MUMBAI: An Indian judge on Friday ordered three men to hang after they were convicted of two gang-rapes, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year.

The sentences were announced at a court in Mumbai for the two attacks in July and August last year at the same abandoned mill compound in the city, including an attack on a photographer that made global headlines.

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