Four persons were sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2017 gang rape case by special court for trial of cases under the SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in Karimnagar on Friday. The court also imposed a fine of ₹11,000 on each convict.

The court found Gundaboina Shankar, 45, and Nyatari Swamy, 40, both from Peddapalli district and Sanjay Kumar Yadav, 30, from Bihar, guilty of gang raping a woman who worked at a rice mill in Sultanabad mandal, on March 10, 2017. The fourth convict, a 40-year-old woman from Sultanabad, was found guilty of abetting the crime.

According to the prosecution, she forced the victim to consume alcohol and when she became unconscious, the men raped her.