Those who will have to serve 12 years in prison are Bhuwan Kongri, Abhishek Magar, Raj Kumar Limbu, and Sobhit Magar. [break]
The four have also been ordered to pay Rs 50,000 fine each. Similarly, Dorna Bahadur Rai has been sentenced to six years of imprisonment, a court source said.
The court also ordered the rapists to collectively fork out an additional Rs 130,000 stolen from the nun during the rape.
On June 24 last year, five people including driver, driver´s help and assistants of a bus traveling from Dharan to Khandari of Sankhuwasabha district gang-raped the nun at Sabhakhola of Kharang VDC, Sankhuwasabha. They parked the bus on the river bank and gang raped the nun, who was the sole passenger of the bus at that time.
The nun was returning home with Rs 130,000 from Kakarbhitta. She had boarded a bus in Dharan at around 10 am for Sabha Khola. She would have to cross the river by boat because of the monsoon spate, and take another vehicle to reach Khandbari by evening.
The bus reached Sabha Khola late and a boat was not available for the night.
As all rooms at local hotels had been taken, she had supper with the bus crew at one of the hotels and agreed to stay in the bus for the night as she was a nun and also because an elderly woman was also staying in the same bus. The bus crew drugged her at the hotel before raping her in the bus.
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