New Delhi, July 25: A youth - who was sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment today alongwith his two accomplices for raping a minor girl over four years ago in West Delhi - threatened the woman judge who convicted him in open court that he would kill her. Just after Additional Sessions Judge Bimla Makin read out the sentence, an angry and unrepentent Luv Kush (27) pointed his finger at her and shouted that he would go to her residence and eliminate her alongwith family.

He was immediately pushed out of the court by the police.

The visibly shocked judge later told the convict's wife and lawyer - who were begging her pardon - that he deserved no mercy.

"If this was how he behaved in front of me and that too in open court, imagine how he would have treated the poor victim," Makin said.
The judge found the convicts - Luv Kush, Pritam Singh alias Raj (24) and RAVINDER Yadav (28) - guilty of the henious crime and ordered them to pay a fine of Rs 10,400 each.

In the morning of November 17, 1998, the girl - a student of class ten - was going from Tilak Nagar Tanky towards Jail Road to hire a rickshaw when two motorcycle-borne youth (Pritam Singh and Luv Kush) stopped her saying her brother had met with an accident and that they would take her to him.

Perplexed, she sat on the bike with them. The duo took her to a flat on the ground floor of a house where two other men were already waiting. The three convicts then played the tape-recorder at high volume and raped her taking turns.
The court, however, acquitted the fourth accused Bhagwan alias Kulu.

Bureau Report