INDIA: TWO TAXI DRIVERS GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING AUSTRALIAN TOURIST

in a Delhi Court in India, two taxi drivers were sentenced to death for killing 59 year old Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs after gang raping and robbing her in 2004. Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 each on Jyotish Prasad and Ashish Kumar, who were held guilty of gang rape, robbery, destruction of evidence and common intention. The convicts were also awarded life imprisonment for gang raping the tourist who had come here to join a meditation course. Griggs landed in Delhi in the early hours of March 17, 2004. She took a pre-paid taxi from IGI airport and was later found murdered.