India, Aug. 1 -- Two separate courts in Mangaluru have sentenced five men to prison in two unrelated sexual assault cases, with four men receiving 20 years each for a 2018 gang rape and another man receiving 20 years for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor.

In the first case, the second additional district and sessions (Special) Court on Thursday sentenced Prajwal, Arun Amin, Aditya Salian and Abdul Riyaz to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment each for gang raping a woman in November 2018 and committing offences under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Justice Jagadeesh V N convicted the four men under multiple provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the SC/ST Act. The court also imposed a combine...