9-Year Wait For Justice Ends: 2 BSF Jawans Jailed Over Gang Rape, Acid Attack On Mizoram Tribal Woman

Published 16 June 2026 · india

9-Year Wait For Justice Ends: 2 BSF Jawans Jailed Over Gang Rape, Acid Attack On Mizoram Tribal Woman Written By, Last Updated: June 17, 2026

9-Year Wait For Justice Ends: 2 BSF Jawans Jailed Over Gang Rape, Acid Attack On Mizoram Tribal Woman Written By, Last Updated: June 17, 2026, 04:46 IST The court sentenced the two men to cumulative terms of rigorous imprisonment spanning different counts, accumulating to an overall punitive breakdown of 42 years While the primary victim survived the ordeal with permanent facial disfigurement and a partial loss of vision, her companion mysteriously went missing during the attack. Her highly decomposed body was discovered in the wilderness 11 days later. Representational image Bringing an end to a harrowing nine-year legal battle, a district court in Mizoram’s Aizawl has sentenced two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel to rigorous imprisonment for the gang-rape and brutal acid attack of a local tribal woman in 2017. The judgment, delivered by Additional District and Sessions Judge Sylvie Zomuanpuii Ralte, found the two jawans, identified as Nilanjan Das and Dinesh Kumar, guilty under multiple severe sections of the Indian Penal Code. The judicial order sentences the two men to cumulative terms of rigorous imprisonment spanning different counts, accumulating to an overall punitive breakdown of 42 years. The convictions are distributed across three precise criminal counts to reflect the sheer gravity of the assault.

The court handed down 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for gang-rape, an additional 12 years for the execution of the acid attack, and a further 10 years for inflicting grievous bodily harm during the sexual assault. Furthermore, the court imposed individual fines of 60,000 rupees on each convict for every distinct offence, with an attached penalty of two months of simple imprisonment for any failure to clear the monetary payments. Border Outpost Duty Records Pinpoint Perpetrators The horrifying case traces back to July 16, 2017, when the victim and her female companion ventured into the dense forests near the Gaskata River close to Silsuri West in the Mamit district, along the volatile India-Bangladesh border, to collect wild vegetables. The two BSF jawans, who were explicitly deployed at the local border outpost and assigned to transport rations at that specific hour, waylaid the women in the jungle. Das and Kumar subjected one of the women to forceful sexual intercourse before pouring a corrosive acid solution directly over her face to deliberately blind her and erase any physical possibility of future identification. While the primary victim survived the ordeal with permanent facial disfigurement and a partial loss of vision, her companion mysteriously went missing during the attack.