A Mumbai Sessions court today pronounced life imprisonment for all four convicts in the telephone operator gang-rape case. The court had yesterday convicted five persons for the gang-rape of the photojournalist on August 22 and a telephone operator on July 31 last year that took place at the Shakti Mills located in central Mumbai.

However, Principal Sessions Judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi has pronounced the quantum of sentence in telephone operator gang-rape case only. The hearing of the sentencing in photojournalist gang-rape case has been adjourned till March 24.

The court had found Vijay Jadhav, 19, Mohammad Qasim Shaikh, 21 and Mohammad Ansari, 28 guilty for both the gang-rape cases. In addition to the trio, the court found Siraj Khan guilty in the photojournalist gang-rape case on August 22, and Mohammad Ashfaque Shaikh, 26, guilty of the telephone operator gang-rape case at the same compound on July 31 last year. Two minors, one in each case, are being tried under the juvenile justice act separately.

The crime branch that investigated both cases submitted a 362 page chargesheet in the telephone operator case on October 8 last year, while a 600 page chargesheet was filed in the photojournalist case on September 19.

The trial was conducted on a day-to-day basis in the court presided by the principal sessions judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi.