A local court on Friday sentenced two men to five-year imprisonment for sodomising and on charges of culpable homicide for the death a 35-year-old man last year. Arrested on January 28, 2016, they tried to first have “unnatural sex” with the victim but, when he resisted, they put a wooden stick in his anus. The matter had come to light a day before that, when Ram Variksh, 35, a resident of Housing Board Society, Mohali, who worked as painter, was found lying near traffic lights near Colony Number 5, Chandigarh. According to an eyewitness, on January 26 he saw two men trying to have unnatural sex with another person (Ram Variksh) in Sector 50. Police found that the accused were strangers to Ram Variksh and had found him in an inebriated condition near Sector 50 when they first robbed him of his articles and later brutalised him.

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 15:45 UTC