A 49-year-old man was sentenced to life in jail on Monday by a classes court docket in Mumbai for killing his son. The police had claimed that the sufferer, Imran Shaikh (20), was attacked with a pair of scissors by his father Salim after a quarrel on August 24, 2018. The police had alleged that Imran had refused to name his father’s second spouse “ammi”, on account of which they’d a combat.
In response to the prosecution, the combat happened on the household’s residence in Dongri round 9pm. The combat took an unsightly flip and Salim started hitting Imran. Imran’s mom, Parveen, bought scared and rushed to the police station for intervention. When she returned with the police, Imran was grievously injured after Salim attacked him with a pair of scissors.
In the course of the trial, the accused had claimed that Imran’s accidents have been self-inflicted as he was hooked on medication. The court docket, nevertheless, dominated that out based mostly on medical reviews which confirmed that the accidents couldn’t have been self-inflicted and there was no hint of medicine within the sufferer’s physique.
The court docket additionally agreed with the prosecution that the sufferer’s mom would have tried to cease him if he was making an attempt to injure himself and never rushed to the police. It additionally took into consideration that the accused had fled after the assault.
In the course of the trial, the accused had mentioned that there have been no eyewitnesses and the sufferer’s mom, Parveen had additionally not supported the prosecution’s case. Parveen was declared hostile as she mentioned in her testimony in court docket that her son was beneath the affect of medicine on the day of the incident. When questioned about her go to to the police station, she confirmed that she had gone to hunt assist due to the combat between her son and husband.
“.. the testimony of PW-8 (mom) about self-infliction of accidents by deceased appears unreliable and an try to save lots of her husband. It must be famous that PW-8 is an unlucky woman. She appears to have been caught in emotional dilemma. On one hand, she has already misplaced her baby and on different hand her husband is at risk of getting punished for committing homicide on their son. Therefore, she tried to depose few issues falsely, however couldn’t depose all false,” the court docket mentioned in its order.
The court docket additionally mentioned that eyewitnesses noticed the accused combating together with his son and though no person noticed the precise assault, he had not been capable of clarify the accidents inflicted on the sufferer.
“The act of a mom to run to the police station to hunt police assist exhibits her helplessness and apathy proven by neighbours and bystanders to supply well timed assist to the deceased. This exhibits the falling normal of our society and the careless perspective in the direction of such critical incidents. Accused although was the daddy of the deceased, confirmed no sympathy to him. After the assault, he appeared to have run away from the spot,” further classes decide S D Tawshikar mentioned.
Whereas the prosecution sought the loss of life penalty, the court docket mentioned that the accused must be given the loss of life penalty for killing his son and that it was not within the class of ‘rarest of uncommon’ as required by regulation.
