Six get life for raping 100 Ajmer schoolgirls in ’92

Jaipur, August 20

A POCSO court has sentenced six more men to life imprisonment in the 1992 sensational Ajmer sex scandal in which more than 100 girls were raped and blackmailed.

POCSO court judge Ranjan Singh also slapped fines of Rs 5 lakh on each of the accused. Prosecution counsel Virendra Singh said Nafees Chishti, Naseem, alias Tarzan, Salim Chishti, Iqbal Bhati, Sohail Gani and Sayed Zameer Hussain were convicted of being involved in the crime. Bhati was brought to Ajmer from Delhi in an ambulance.

School and college girls aged between 11 and 20 years were victimised by a gang, whose members befriended them and shot their photographs in compromising situations, and later raped them. The victims studied in a famous private school in Ajmer. They were called to a farmhouse where they were raped. There were a total of 18 accused in the case.