ELEVEN YEARS after a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) rank officer was overwhelmed to demise in a Pratapgarh village, a particular CBI court docket in Lucknow on Wednesday sentenced 10 convicts to life imprisonment.
The case dates again to March 2013, when the sufferer, DySP Ziaul Haque, had gone to Balipur village in Pratapgarh after being knowledgeable in regards to the homicide of village pradhan Nanhey Yadav, who had been shot useless by rivals. The DySP had been posted because the Kunda Circle Officer on the time.
Final week, the court docket had fastened Wednesday for sentencing after discovering all the ten accused responsible underneath IPC part 302 (homicide), 353 , 147 (rioting) and 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm). The accused, who have been out on bail, have been then taken into custody and despatched to jail. On Wednesday, after listening to the prosecution and the defence, the court docket handed down life imprisonment to all 10 accused, mentioned Ok P Singh, Particular Public Prosecutor for the CBI.
All of the convicts are from Pratapgarh and several other of them are associated to the slain village pradhan, Nanhey Yadav. The convicts are Phool Chand Yadav, Pawan Yadav, Manjeet Yadav, Ghanshyam Saroj, Ram Lakhan Gautam, Chotte Lal Yadav, Ram Asrey, Munna Patel, Shivram Pasi and Jagat Bahadur Pal.
The court docket examined 32 prosecution witnesses and 12 defence witnesses.
The court docket additionally imposed a high quality of Rs 19,500 on every convict, directing that half of the full quantity be given to the slain DySP’s spouse, Parveen Azad, Singh mentioned. On Wednesday, the accused have been delivered to the court docket amid tight safety preparations.
In accordance with the prosecution, on March 2, 2013, the DySP was attacked when he reached close to the home of the village pradhan. He was overwhelmed up with hockey sticks and rods. Haque was taken to a hospital, the place he was declared useless by medical doctors.
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