A Mumbai sessions court today held all 3 convicts of the Shakti Mills photojournalist gangrape case guilty under sec 376 E of IPC which attracts the maximum penalty of capital punishment. Kasim Bengali, Vijay Jadhav and Mohammed Salim Ansari are the common accused who are also convicted in the telephone operator gangrape case.

The 22-year-old photo journalist of a magazine was gang raped when she had gone to the Shakti Mills compound in the Central Mumbai with a male colleague on an assignment. The Bombay High Court had last week refused to interfere with the sessions court's decision to frame a fresh charge for repeat offence of rape.

An 18-year-old telephone operator was also gang raped in the premises of Shakti Mills in July last year a month before the photojournalist was brutalised on August 22.