A local court sentenced the three convicts in the 2017 auto gangrape case to life imprisonment till the remainder of natural life. They were also fined Rs 2.05 lakh each.
Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Garib and Kismat Ali had raped a 22-year-old woman.
They had been charged under Sections 376-D (gangrape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC. The DNA of all three had confirmed the crime.
Irfan is an accused in a similar case which dates back to December 2016.
The victim, originally from Dehradun, stayed in a rented accommodation in Mohali and was returning home from her typing classes in Sector 37 in Chandigarh at night. She boarded the autorickshaw which already had the three accused, including the driver in it.
The auto driver reportedly drove towards the forest area in Sector 53, where the three raped her. The images of the accused were caught in a CCTV camera installed at the Sector 42 petrol pump where the accused had stopped to get the fuel tank refilled.
Irfan (29), the auto driver was the first one to be arrested on November 24 and had named the other two. The duo was arrested the next day in Uttar Pradesh. Previously, the police had announced Rs 1 lakh reward for information on the accused.
