India, March 2 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday upheld the life imprisonment of three men convicted in the 2014 gangrape and murder of a 15 year-old girl whose body was found in trolley bag at Talegaon railway station in Pune district, ruling that prosecution had proved an unbroken chain of evidence against them.

A division bench of Justices Sarang V. Kotwal and Sandesh D. Patil dismissed the appeals filed by the accused, Santosh Jugdar, Rahul Barai and Jishan Kureshi, observing that there was no reason to interfere with the trial court's 2023 conviction. The bench noted that the circumstances formed a complete chain of circumstances "pointing unerringly" to the guilt of the accused.

The girl's body was discovered in 2014 near a publi...