New Delhi: A Delhi court has sentenced a man to five years in jail for stabbing his
friend while he was trying to pacify him during a quarrel observing
there was no justification in inflicting such a deep wound on someone
who was only asking him to forget the past.
District and sessions
judge Asha Menon handed down the jail term to south Delhi resident
Manoj while holding him guilty of the offence of attempt to murder under
the IPC.
The judge also refused to show any leniency towards him
on the ground of poverty considering that the victim too was from the
same background.
"There had been a quarrel amongst the friends
and the injured had only tried to pacify him. The response of the
convict was not at all commensurate with any action of the injured which
the convict may have considered hostile to his interest. There was no
justification at all in the convict inflicting such a deep wound on the
victim for asking him to forget the past.
"Poverty alone would
not be extenuating circumstance in view of the fact that the injured
also belongs to the same background as the convict," the judge said.
The
court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Manoj and directed the Delhi
Legal Services Authority (South) to provide relevant compensation to the
victim.
According to the prosecution, on July 16, 2015 at Sangam
Vihar here, the accused had a fight with his friend and when victim
Manish intervened and tried to resolve the dispute, Manoj stabbed him
with a knife causing a life threatening injury.
"Prosecution has
proved the case completely against the accused that he stabbed the
injured with a knife in a manner that had death been caused he would be
guilty of murder," the court said.
During the proceedings, the
accused had pleaded innocence and claimed he was falsely implicated.
After conviction, he sought leniency from the court on the ground that
he was poor.
The court, however, rejected his contentions and
said, "In the totality of the facts and circumstances of this case, the
convict is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for a period of five years
and to a fine of Rs.10,000.
PTI
