A Belgrade court sentenced in a first-instance verdict Ranka Tomic for alleged war crimes committed in a village near the northwestern Bosnian town of Bosanska Krupa in 1992, the court said on Monday.

Ranka Tomic, who reportedly acted as a commander of the Bosnian Serb forces’ Front of Petrovac Woman in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, was sentenced to five years in prison under the charges of committing the war crimes against prisoners of war.

According to the indictment, she took part in torturing 18-year-old nurse of then Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina's 5th Corps, Karmena Kamencic.

The Higher Court of Belgrade took the case known as Bosanska Krupa case from a cantonal court in the Bosnian town of Bihac, and Serbian Prosecutor's Office for War Crimes issued an indictment in May 2016. The indictment was modified in November 2018.

Tomic was charged with inhumane treatment of, torturing and taking part in the crime against Kamencic, who was allegedly shot from a gun of a juvenile resident. Bora Kuburic and Radmila Banjac, the Front of Petrovac Women members, were previously sentenced to four years in prison each, within the same case before a Bihac court.

Reportedly, Kamencic was forced to take off her clothes in the village of Radic, where she was beaten by the indictees, who forced her to crawl naked on the ground and dig her own grave, where she was allegedly shot by a juvenile local while she was lying in the grave.