Overview
- The Additional 10th District and Sessions Court in Belagavi convicted all 12 under Section 235 of the CrPC for multiple IPC offences, including unlawful assembly, grievous hurt, outraging modesty, robbery and attempt to murder.
- Each convict received five years of rigorous imprisonment, with fines imposed, after the judgment was pronounced on Wednesday.
- The 42-year-old was dragged from her home in Hosa Vantamuri on December 11, 2023, stripped, tied to an electric pole and beaten after her son allegedly eloped with a local girl.
- The case was transferred to the CID, which filed a charge sheet on April 22, 2024 citing 92 witnesses and 37 exhibits, and the trial examined 45 witnesses under a Karnataka High Court directive for speedy completion.
- Authorities said the convicts include six women, and the state later allotted the survivor two acres of land while police who intervened were felicitated.