The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to eight out of 33 persons accused of gangraping a 15-year-old girl in Dombivli over eight months in 2021, noting that they had already spent a long time behind bars, the evidence against them was not sufficient and the victim had failed to identify them.
According to the statement of the victim girl, registered on September 23, 2021, the minor girl was raped for over eight-month period, it was video-recorded by one of the accused, Tushar Gorakh Kasbe, and took advantage and threatened to make the video public and sexually assaulted her.