Pronouncing the quantum of sentence in a packed courtroom in Chandigarh, judge Gagan Geet Kaur said the convicts deserved no leniency. (Representational Image)
A special CBI court on Wednesday sentenced five people, including a former Border Security Force DIG, to 10 years in prison in the 2006 Jammu and Kashmir sex scandal. Pronouncing the quantum of sentence in a packed courtroom in Chandigarh, judge Gagan Geet Kaur said the convicts deserved no leniency. The court had held the five guilty on May 30.
The convicts were brought to the court under tight security. Some of their family members were present there. Minor girls were pushed into prostitution in the scandal in which senior officials and politicians were alleged to be involved. Those sentenced to rigorous imprisonment are former BSF deputy inspector general K C Padhi, former J&K deputy superintendent of police Mohammad Ashraf Mir and three others – Masood Ahmad alias Maqsood, Shabir Ahmad Langoo and Shabir Ahmad Laway.
Any period spent by them in custody during the trial will be set off against their term of imprisonment. The court came down heavily upon Padhi and Mir, saying such acts could not be expected from those the society regarded as its…
