Two get life sentence for abducting DDA official
4 Oct 2012 5:09 AM IST
Two persons have been been given life sentence by a Delhi court for kidnapping a suspended DDA employee in 2000 for a ransom of Rs 2 crore.
Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja gave life terms to Uttar Pradesh native Aleem Khan alias Karan Singh and Mumbai resident Krishan Shankar Bakde while acquitting nine others in the case. Three other accused had died during pendency of the case.
The court found Aleem guilty of kidnapping the DDA official M C Mahajan after barging into his house on 23 November 2000 night for a ransom of Rs 2 crore. The court also concluded that though it could not be proved that Shankar had also trespassed into the house, it held that he was identified as the one who kept a watch on Mahajan in his captivity.
‘The allegations against above named convicts [Aleem and Shankar] have been proved beyond reasonable doubt,’ said the court terming the offences committed by them as grave and sentencing them to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 respectively.
The prosecution case was that on 23 November 2000, around 10.30 pm, when Mahajan’s wife and daughter had gone out for a walk after dinner, Aleem entered the house armed with a pistol and kidnapped Mahajan with help of four or five other persons and left in a car.
Mahajan told the court that he was later shifted to another house at Sikanderabad and was injected a sedative due to which he lost consciousness and when he regained senses, he found Aleem and Shankar in the room.
He was then again given a sedative, blindfolded and shifted to Aloda Jagir village in Uttar Pradesh and kept there in the house of another co-accused.
Mahajan said he could hear voices of seven to eight persons in the room but could not see them due to the blindfold. He said he was beaten up with iron rods due to which he remained unconscious for a week during which he was again brought back to the same room in Rajinder Nagar.
He deposed that as he was suffering from great pain due to beatings, he was ultimately released on 14 December 2000 at Khurja in Uttar Pradesh from where he took a bus to Delhi and reached home. The doctor listed 33 injuries inflicted on Mahajan by his kidnappers.
The court acquitted nine others in the case saying ‘in the light of the deposition of the victim that during his entire period of captivity, he was wearing blindfolds and could not see anyone, the case of prosecution against rest of the accused persons also does not stand proved on record.’
Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja gave life terms to Uttar Pradesh native Aleem Khan alias Karan Singh and Mumbai resident Krishan Shankar Bakde while acquitting nine others in the case. Three other accused had died during pendency of the case.
The court found Aleem guilty of kidnapping the DDA official M C Mahajan after barging into his house on 23 November 2000 night for a ransom of Rs 2 crore. The court also concluded that though it could not be proved that Shankar had also trespassed into the house, it held that he was identified as the one who kept a watch on Mahajan in his captivity.
‘The allegations against above named convicts [Aleem and Shankar] have been proved beyond reasonable doubt,’ said the court terming the offences committed by them as grave and sentencing them to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 respectively.
The prosecution case was that on 23 November 2000, around 10.30 pm, when Mahajan’s wife and daughter had gone out for a walk after dinner, Aleem entered the house armed with a pistol and kidnapped Mahajan with help of four or five other persons and left in a car.
Mahajan told the court that he was later shifted to another house at Sikanderabad and was injected a sedative due to which he lost consciousness and when he regained senses, he found Aleem and Shankar in the room.
He was then again given a sedative, blindfolded and shifted to Aloda Jagir village in Uttar Pradesh and kept there in the house of another co-accused.
Mahajan said he could hear voices of seven to eight persons in the room but could not see them due to the blindfold. He said he was beaten up with iron rods due to which he remained unconscious for a week during which he was again brought back to the same room in Rajinder Nagar.
He deposed that as he was suffering from great pain due to beatings, he was ultimately released on 14 December 2000 at Khurja in Uttar Pradesh from where he took a bus to Delhi and reached home. The doctor listed 33 injuries inflicted on Mahajan by his kidnappers.
The court acquitted nine others in the case saying ‘in the light of the deposition of the victim that during his entire period of captivity, he was wearing blindfolds and could not see anyone, the case of prosecution against rest of the accused persons also does not stand proved on record.’
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