New Delhi: A Delhi court has convicted four men for the gang-rape of a 35-year-old woman at knife-point, nine years after the crime was committed, while observing that she completely submitted to the act as there was immediate threat to her childrens lives. The court said the four men — Ramjan, Nasiruddin, Sheikh Jahangir and Shah Alam — broke into the womans house at night to commit robbery and raped the victim after threatening to kill her children if she raised an alarm. Holding the four men guilty of rape under Section 376 of Indian Penal Code, Additional Sessions Judge Umed Singh Grewal said there were no injuries on the womans body after the crime was committed as she had not resisted act because the perpetrators threatened to kill her children who were also held at knife-point. "In that situation, no lady can be expected to oppose the misdeeds being committed with her. There was complete submission and hence, the prosecutrix did not suffer any injury and so, absence of any external or internal injury on her body is of no help to any of the accused persons," the ASG said. The victim, in her complaint, said that in May, 2010, 4 men had entered her house where she was residing with her daughter and son and one of them put a knife to her neck and 2 others held her children at knife-point.

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