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The Dubai Appeal Court on Monday overturned the primary verdict, in which one man was sentenced to death and 12 others were jailed for life, the Gulf News reported. "The court has canceled the primary judgment. Two defendants have been sentenced to death. Two other defendants will face 15 years in jail. Meanwhile, nine defendants face a life imprisonment," Judge Eisa Al Sharif ruled.
Prosecutors said all the accused, aged between 20 and 30, kidnapped the Indian victims and stabbed them with knives, swords and cleavers and battered them with iron bars before five of the defendants raped the victims, the paper said.
The prosecutors said the defendants buried the victims in a hole after the attack. All the convicts were additionally charged with disposing the bodies of the victims. Some of the defendants were charged with consuming liquor also.
