Entertainment » OtherPosted at: Jan 30 2016 5:18PM Kamduni gangrape-murder: Three get death, three others life termKolkata, Jan 30 (UNI) A local court today sentenced three men to death and three others to life in prison after convicting them in brutal gang-rape and murder of a college student, that had stirred a storm over women’s safety in the state in 2013. Security was stepped up in and around the court-room as many women activists and people from village of the victim shouted slogans demanding “the severest punishment” for the convicts. In her order, Judge Sanchita Sarkar of City Sessions Court said, ''I award death sentence to three accused on charges of gang-rape and murder of the student and life imprisonment to three others for gang-rape, criminal conspiracy and causing disappearance of evidence.” Public prosecutor Anindya Raut said, “The three of the accused were convicted of gang-raping and murdering the 21-year-old woman, interfering with evidence and other charges while there others were convicted of gang-rape, criminal conspiracy and causing disappearance of evidence," he said. Two of the eight accused were acquitted on Thursday for lack of evidence. The gang had attacked the university student as she was returning to her home in Kamduni village in June, 2013. Soon after she got off the bus, the gang overpowered and dragged her to a nearby abandoned farm. She was found gagged and laying in a pool of blood with legs torn apart up to the naval and the throat slit in a field the next morning. Evidence showed she had been repeatedly raped before the brutal murder. UNI XC KK JN 1715Tags: #Kamduni gangrape-murder: Three get death# three others life term