Rohtak, March 20 -- A local court in Fatehabad on Wednesday sentenced nine persons to three years of imprisonment each for kidnapping, stripping and parading a private hospital doctor in the city after a rape case was filed against him in 2017. A mob had blackened the face of the doctor in October 2017 and paraded him in the city and assaulted him.

The court of additional chief judicial magistrate Rajiv convicted a local politician Rajendra Chaudhary Kaka, ex-councillor Subhash Papiya, Baljeet Bitta, Krishan Kumar, Anil Kumar, Prem Sagar, Gurmeet Mita, Subhash Royal, Virender and Raman Kumar. One of the convict Gurmeet Mita had passed away earlier and other convicts are currently out on bail.

The Fatehabad police have registered a case ...