Aizawl, June 17 -- A court in Mizoram has sentenced two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel to a combined 42 years of rigorous imprisonment for gang-raping a woman and attacking her with a corrosive substance in 2017, in a case that also involved the unresolved death of her companion.

The Additional District and Sessions Court in Aizawl, presided over by Judge Sylvie Zomuanpuii Ralte, had convicted the two border guards - Nilanjan Das of West Bengal and Dinesh Kumar of Uttar Pradesh - on June 12 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, with the quantum of punishment pronounced on Tuesday. Both men were posted at a BSF camp in Mamit district along the Mizoram-Bangladesh border at the time of the offence. The court found the two ...