new delhi three former students of sonipats o p jindal global university convicted of blackmailing and gangraping a college mate for over two years from 2013 were sent back to jail after the supreme court stayed an order of the punjab and haryana high court that had granted them bail about two months agoagreeing to hear a plea filed by the survivors family challenging the high court order a bench of justices s a bobde and m m shanta nagoudar issued a notice to the convicts and the haryana government until further orders there shall be stay of impugned judgment s and orders passed by the high court the supreme court bench said in 2015 the survivor had lodged a complaint with the university administration alleging that the trio all finalyear law students had been blackmailing and raping her since august 2013 she also alleged that the accused were in procession of her objectionable photos they had clicked and that they were threatening her that they would upload the photos on the net she was being blackmailed and forced to continue physical relations with them she addedin march this year a trial court in sonipat had awarded 20year jail term each to hardik sikri and karan chhabra and seven years to vikas garg holding them guilty of blackmail and gang rapehowever later the high court granted bail to sikri chabra and garg while observing that the survivors statement offered an alternative conclusion of misadventure stemming from a promiscuous attitude and a voyeuristic mind it had ordered counselling of the three convicts at the aiims for correcting their behavioural aberrationthe testimony of the victim does offer an alternative story of casual relationship with her friends acquaintances adventurism and experimentation in sexual encounters and these factors would therefore offer compelling reasons to consider the prayer for suspension of sentence favourably particularly when the accused themselves are young and the narrative does not throw up gutwrenching violence that normally precede or accompany such incidents the hc had saidchallenging the verdict the petitioner alleged that the observations made by hc were uncalled for and it would have impact in deciding the appeal filed by the convicts in the hc any evidence of the character or previous sexual experience of the victim with any person is not relevant on the issue of consent or quality of consent in a trial for rape or sexual harassment case the petition filed through advocate rohit singh saidthe hc selectively extracted certain portions of her testimony to observe that she drank beer engaged in drugs and that condoms were found from her room during search in the university the hc then relied upon the said portion without looking at the explanations attached to them as stated by her to adversely comment upon her character the petition said