4 April 2014
Last updated at 08:02 ET
The men attacked the photojournalist while she was on assignment
The men were convicted of raping a photojournalist in Mumbai last year.
But they were also among five men sentenced to life last month for raping another woman in a separate incident in the city.
The trio are the first to be tried and convicted under the tough new law aimed at repeat sexual offenders.
Friday's sentences were announced at a court in Mumbai where Judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi said: "There needs to be zero tolerance for such incidents," the Agence France-Presse news agency reported.
"A loud and clear message needs to be sent to society," she added.
Both the victims - an 18-year-old telephone operator and the photojournalist - were attacked last year. Both trials were completed within seven months in a fast-track court.
The 22-year-old photojournalist, an intern with a Mumbai-based magazine, had gone to the Shakti Mills - a former textile mill that now lies abandoned - with a male colleague on a photo assignment when she was attacked. Her colleague was beaten during the assault.
After that case made national headlines, the 18-year-old telephone operator came forward to report that she had been assaulted in the same place a month earlier.
Scrutiny of sexual violence has grown in India ever since the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.
The case sparked off nationwide protests and forced the Indian authorities to introduce tough new anti-rape laws.
Four men were sentenced to death and a juvenile was sent to a correction facility for three years for the Delhi attack.
The attack on the Mumbai photojournalist only renewed public outrage.
Mumbai gang rape: Death sentences for India rapists
The men attacked the photojournalist while she was on assignment
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court in India has sentenced three men to hang, under a new law which
carries the death penalty for those convicted of multiple sexual
assaults.
But they were also among five men sentenced to life last month for raping another woman in a separate incident in the city.
The trio are the first to be tried and convicted under the tough new law aimed at repeat sexual offenders.
Friday's sentences were announced at a court in Mumbai where Judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi said: "There needs to be zero tolerance for such incidents," the Agence France-Presse news agency reported.
"A loud and clear message needs to be sent to society," she added.
Both the victims - an 18-year-old telephone operator and the photojournalist - were attacked last year. Both trials were completed within seven months in a fast-track court.
The 22-year-old photojournalist, an intern with a Mumbai-based magazine, had gone to the Shakti Mills - a former textile mill that now lies abandoned - with a male colleague on a photo assignment when she was attacked. Her colleague was beaten during the assault.
After that case made national headlines, the 18-year-old telephone operator came forward to report that she had been assaulted in the same place a month earlier.
Scrutiny of sexual violence has grown in India ever since the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.
The case sparked off nationwide protests and forced the Indian authorities to introduce tough new anti-rape laws.
Four men were sentenced to death and a juvenile was sent to a correction facility for three years for the Delhi attack.
The attack on the Mumbai photojournalist only renewed public outrage.
Rape scandal
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The BBC's Soutik Biswas meets the family of the victim of the Delhi gang rape, a year after the attack sparked international outrage.
Victim's life changed
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Closure ahead?
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Suspects' profiles
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Forgotten rapes
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Viewpoints: Did case change India?
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Anger and calls for justice in Delhi
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Q&A: Anti-rape laws
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Can India change?
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How India treats women
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Family: 'Our brave girl'
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Tragedy of rape victim
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