Crime Diary: August 6
6 Aug 2012 3:38 PM IST
Drunk youth behind wheel kills child
In yet another case of drunken driving, four young boys killed a five-year-old girl on the streets of Gurgaon, while critically injuring 11 others of the same family.
On the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, around 2.15 pm, a speeding black Wagon-R rammed into an Omni Van. The four accused fled from the spot after the incident.
‘A passerby informed the police and immediately four PCR vans reached the spot. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, where a five-year-old girl child was declared dead on arrival. Other victims were admitted,’ said a senior police officer.
The official added, ‘Later, all the injured were referred to Safdarjung hospital.’ It was alleged by an eye-witness, Robin, that the Wagon-R was coming at a very high speed and the boys sitting inside were drunk. The moment the collision took place, the Omni Van carrying 12 people turned several times. Soon after the collision, all four of them fled away. One of the passersby tried to nab them, but they managed to escape. ‘I pulled out a few people from the car, who were badly injured. There were five children, three ladies and four men inside the van. Of the 12 people, a girl child lost her life in the accident. We informed the police and later they all were taken to the hospital,’ said Gautam, another eye-witness.
According to doctors, of the 11 persons who survived the accident, two children and a woman are critically injured. Rest others suffered minor injuries.
‘a lot of alcohol bottles were recovered inside the Wagon-R. The car has been taken into possesion and with the help of the number plate, we are trying to find the owner. A case under appropriate sections has been registered against the four accused,’ said a police official.
DRUG ADDICT GETS LIFE TERM FOR KILLING HANDICAPPED FRIEND
A drug addict has been handed life imprisonment by a Delhi court for killing his handicapped friend for denying him smack. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau passed the sentence on drug addict Bantoo, dismissing his pleas for leniency and saying that a person cannot be allowed to kill another to satisfy his ‘physical cravings’.
Considering the international practice of reforming addicts, the court, however, directed the jail superintendent to provide him de-addiction treatment.
‘It is essential for the drug addicts to recognise that their addictive behaviour is on some level a choice and that they can choose differently,’ the court said while refusing Bantoo’s plea for leniency. The court, however, said the conviction cannot come in the way of reforming and providing de-addiction treatment to those held guilty for the heinous crime. ‘World over, those convicted of addiction-related crimes are ordered into treatment as part of their sentences...,’ the court said.
According to police, 37-year-old Bantoo had murdered his handicapped drug addict friend Shyam after he refused to give him smack in March last year.
Both Bantoo and Shyam used to resort to begging in near Mahender Park in north-west Delhi and buy smack from its proceeds. The case dates back to 18 March 2011, when Bantoo came to Shyam’s house and took him along with him to a nearby public toilet, where they used to take the drug regularly, despite protests by Shyam’s mother. The police said the accused stabbed the victim thrice in his stomach on his refusal to give him smack.
The court held Bantoo guilty of murdering Shyam on the testimony of victim’s mother who said she had seen them going to the public toilet together and the accused was also carrying a knife. She had told the court that after some time she heard Bantoo shouting that he had stabbed Shyam as he was not giving him smack and he ran away from the spot.
Bantoo, however, was caught by the victim’s brother who handed him over to the police. The convict sought leniency saying he was illiterate, a beggar and was heavily addicted to smack. The judge, however, refused leniency on the ground that he himself was responsible for his behaviour.
‘No blanket licence can be given to a person to kill another to satisfy his physical cravings and then to claim the benefit of his having done so in a state of addiction,’ the court said.
During the trial, Bantoo was given medical treatment for his addiction and it is still continuing.
A man sentenced to one year jail term by a magisterial court in a 27-year-old dowry harassment case has been acquitted, with the sessions judge ruling that he was convicted on ‘vague allegations’.
Additional Sessions Judge Rajeev Bansal let off Moradabad native Suresh Chand, observing that courts must not ‘be swayed away by complainant’s emotions’ and ‘the prosecution case must stand on its own legs’.
‘The trial court has not reasoned as to how appellant is held guilty under Section 498A IPC when the allegations were vague and unspecific and there were improvements in deposition of witnesses including the complainant,’ the judge said, setting aside the magisterial court’s April 2009 order.
‘It is settled law that emotions cannot have precedence over depositions made in the court. The prosecution case has to stand on its own legs and is duty bound to prove its case beyond reasonable doubts.’
The sessions judge also noted that the magisterial court had acquitted Chand’s mother Veero Devi of same allegations.
‘Court is not to be swayed by emotions of the complainant. It has been noticed that whenever matrimonial relations between spouses turn sour, wild allegations are made. The complainant and the appellant, in the present case, have already been divorced and it is high time that such litigations are also buried once for all,’ the ASJ said.
The case dates back to 1985, when Chand’s wife Jaimala lodged an FIR against her husband and his parents at Kotwali police station in Moradabad of Uttar Pradesh, alleging that they had been harassing her since 1982 for not meeting their demand of dowry.
The Moradabad police filed a final report in the case in the court of district’s chief judicial magistrate in 1987.
Jaimala, meanwhile, moved the Supreme Court for transfer of the case to Delhi, following which its proceedings remained stayed till 1990, when the matter was transferred to the court of chief metropolitan magistrate here.
The Moradabad police again filed a final report in the case before Delhi CMM in 1992 and charges were framed in 2002.
Eventually the magisterial court acquitted all others in the case in April 2009 barring Chand.
In yet another case of drunken driving, four young boys killed a five-year-old girl on the streets of Gurgaon, while critically injuring 11 others of the same family.
On the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, around 2.15 pm, a speeding black Wagon-R rammed into an Omni Van. The four accused fled from the spot after the incident.
‘A passerby informed the police and immediately four PCR vans reached the spot. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, where a five-year-old girl child was declared dead on arrival. Other victims were admitted,’ said a senior police officer.
The official added, ‘Later, all the injured were referred to Safdarjung hospital.’ It was alleged by an eye-witness, Robin, that the Wagon-R was coming at a very high speed and the boys sitting inside were drunk. The moment the collision took place, the Omni Van carrying 12 people turned several times. Soon after the collision, all four of them fled away. One of the passersby tried to nab them, but they managed to escape. ‘I pulled out a few people from the car, who were badly injured. There were five children, three ladies and four men inside the van. Of the 12 people, a girl child lost her life in the accident. We informed the police and later they all were taken to the hospital,’ said Gautam, another eye-witness.
According to doctors, of the 11 persons who survived the accident, two children and a woman are critically injured. Rest others suffered minor injuries.
‘a lot of alcohol bottles were recovered inside the Wagon-R. The car has been taken into possesion and with the help of the number plate, we are trying to find the owner. A case under appropriate sections has been registered against the four accused,’ said a police official.
DRUG ADDICT GETS LIFE TERM FOR KILLING HANDICAPPED FRIEND
A drug addict has been handed life imprisonment by a Delhi court for killing his handicapped friend for denying him smack. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau passed the sentence on drug addict Bantoo, dismissing his pleas for leniency and saying that a person cannot be allowed to kill another to satisfy his ‘physical cravings’.
Considering the international practice of reforming addicts, the court, however, directed the jail superintendent to provide him de-addiction treatment.
‘It is essential for the drug addicts to recognise that their addictive behaviour is on some level a choice and that they can choose differently,’ the court said while refusing Bantoo’s plea for leniency. The court, however, said the conviction cannot come in the way of reforming and providing de-addiction treatment to those held guilty for the heinous crime. ‘World over, those convicted of addiction-related crimes are ordered into treatment as part of their sentences...,’ the court said.
According to police, 37-year-old Bantoo had murdered his handicapped drug addict friend Shyam after he refused to give him smack in March last year.
Both Bantoo and Shyam used to resort to begging in near Mahender Park in north-west Delhi and buy smack from its proceeds. The case dates back to 18 March 2011, when Bantoo came to Shyam’s house and took him along with him to a nearby public toilet, where they used to take the drug regularly, despite protests by Shyam’s mother. The police said the accused stabbed the victim thrice in his stomach on his refusal to give him smack.
The court held Bantoo guilty of murdering Shyam on the testimony of victim’s mother who said she had seen them going to the public toilet together and the accused was also carrying a knife. She had told the court that after some time she heard Bantoo shouting that he had stabbed Shyam as he was not giving him smack and he ran away from the spot.
Bantoo, however, was caught by the victim’s brother who handed him over to the police. The convict sought leniency saying he was illiterate, a beggar and was heavily addicted to smack. The judge, however, refused leniency on the ground that he himself was responsible for his behaviour.
‘No blanket licence can be given to a person to kill another to satisfy his physical cravings and then to claim the benefit of his having done so in a state of addiction,’ the court said.
During the trial, Bantoo was given medical treatment for his addiction and it is still continuing.
A man sentenced to one year jail term by a magisterial court in a 27-year-old dowry harassment case has been acquitted, with the sessions judge ruling that he was convicted on ‘vague allegations’.
Additional Sessions Judge Rajeev Bansal let off Moradabad native Suresh Chand, observing that courts must not ‘be swayed away by complainant’s emotions’ and ‘the prosecution case must stand on its own legs’.
‘The trial court has not reasoned as to how appellant is held guilty under Section 498A IPC when the allegations were vague and unspecific and there were improvements in deposition of witnesses including the complainant,’ the judge said, setting aside the magisterial court’s April 2009 order.
‘It is settled law that emotions cannot have precedence over depositions made in the court. The prosecution case has to stand on its own legs and is duty bound to prove its case beyond reasonable doubts.’
The sessions judge also noted that the magisterial court had acquitted Chand’s mother Veero Devi of same allegations.
‘Court is not to be swayed by emotions of the complainant. It has been noticed that whenever matrimonial relations between spouses turn sour, wild allegations are made. The complainant and the appellant, in the present case, have already been divorced and it is high time that such litigations are also buried once for all,’ the ASJ said.
The case dates back to 1985, when Chand’s wife Jaimala lodged an FIR against her husband and his parents at Kotwali police station in Moradabad of Uttar Pradesh, alleging that they had been harassing her since 1982 for not meeting their demand of dowry.
The Moradabad police filed a final report in the case in the court of district’s chief judicial magistrate in 1987.
Jaimala, meanwhile, moved the Supreme Court for transfer of the case to Delhi, following which its proceedings remained stayed till 1990, when the matter was transferred to the court of chief metropolitan magistrate here.
The Moradabad police again filed a final report in the case before Delhi CMM in 1992 and charges were framed in 2002.
Eventually the magisterial court acquitted all others in the case in April 2009 barring Chand.
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