Mumbai: Four accused in the 23-year-old photojournalist gang-rape case were on Thursday remanded in judicial custody till September 19 by a magistrate court here.
Magistrate U M Padwad sent all the four culprits--Shiraz Rehman Khan, Vijay Jadhav, Kasim Bengali and Salim Ansari--to 14-day judicial custody after the crime branch sought the same to conduct an identification parade. Their police custody ended on Thrusday.
On August 30, another minor accused was produced before a juvenile court, from where he was sent to a juvenile remand home in Dongri.
The juvenile accused, if convicted, would have to spend a maximum of three years at a correctional facility instead of undergoing stricter punishment of no less than 7 years which could extend up to life imprisonment for others.
According to police, one of the five accused in the brutal crime was found to be a minor after his brother produced a birth certificate issued by the city's civic authority and a school leaving certificate, both of which showed that he was born in February 1997.
