{{Jalandhar}}: {Eighteen months after the brutal assault on 23-year-old African student Yannick Nihangaza that left him comatose, a local court yesterday awarded 10 years of rigorous imprisonment to seven persons in the case.}<\/p>\n
Additional District and Session Judge BK Sharma also imposed a penalty of Rs. 20,000 each
\non the convicts Romi Uppal, Sahildeep Singh, Amandeep Singh, Sumant Ralhan, Amarbeer Singh, Harsh Gosain and Jaswant Singh.<\/p>\n
Romi is son of a late senior officer of Punjab Police.<\/p>\n
“The accused have been awarded 10-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 20,000 each,
\nfailing the payment of which they will have to serve two years more in jail,” defence counsel Mandeep Sachdeva said.<\/p>\n
He said they will challenge the local court’s order in Punjab and Haryana High Court.<\/p>\n
Yannick, a Burundi citizen and student of a private university, was going to a party in Jalandhar on April 22, 2012 when he was attacked.<\/p>\n
While the attackers had managed to flee, Yannick was admitted to a private hospital in Patiala where he is still lying in coma.<\/p>\n
After the incident, Ambassador of Burundi Rubuka Aloys had met a senior External Affairs Ministry official seeking legal help in the case.<\/p>\n
The police had registered case against nine persons and two of them – Jaskaran Singh and Ranjot Singh – are still on the run.<\/p>\n
NDTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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