Three youths were today convicted and sentenced to life-imprisonment by a district court here for abducting and gang-raping a minor girl in a moving car last year.

District Judge R P Dholariya found the three - Sahid Sayyed, Tariq Sayyed and Abu Bakar - guilty of abducting the 17-year-old girl while she was on her way to coaching classes and raping her in a moving car on June 12 last year.