The Bombay High Court has upheld the death penalty of three convicts in the 2013 Shakti Mill gang-rape case. The Bombay HC on Monday ruled that section 376(E) of the Indian Penal Code under which repeat offenders in rape cases can be awarded life imprisonment or death penalty is constitutionally valid and is applicable in the case.

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A division bench of Justices B P Dharmadhikari and Revati Mohite Dere made the ruling while dismissing the petitions filed by three convicts in the Shakti Mill gang rape case challenging Constitutional validity of the legal provisions under which they were sentenced to death in 2014.