Mangaluru (PTI): A court here has sentenced four persons to life imprisonment in a 2015 murder case.
The additional district and sessions court convicted Vijeth Kumar (22), Kiran Poojary (24), Aneesh (23), and Abhijith (24) on April 8 for the murder of Mohammed Nasir.
Pronouncing the sentence on Tuesday, the first Additional District and Sessions Judge, H S Mallikarjuna Swamy, also imposed a fine of ₹25,000 each on the four convicts.
On August 6, 2015, the accused attacked Mohammed Nasir and Mohammed Mustafa, an auto-rickshaw driver, with swords while Nasir was travelling in Mustafa's vehicle. Nasir was killed in the assault, while Mustafa survived.
According to the prosecution, the motive behind the murder was retaliation for an attack on Vijeth Kumar and Abhijith the previous night by some Muslim youths in Bantwal.
The four accused followed the Nasir's auto-rickshaw from Melkar to Mudipu on motorcycles. Upon confirming the identities of the occupants as Muslims, they carried out the fatal attack, the prosecution said.
While delivering the sentence, the judge directed that the fine amount be paid to the victim's wife, Rahamath, along with compensation from the State Legal Services Authority. Additionally, the complainant, Mustafa, is entitled to compensation from the same authority, the court said.
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Ahmedabad (PTI): The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as a senior revenue official and used fake letters claiming to be from various government departments to cheat people, an official said on Sunday.
Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two schools at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of making lakhs of rupees with bogus documents and false claims, said inspector (crime branch) JK Makwana.
Shah had forged an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district education officer (DEO) to offer a computer operator’s job in a government office to a complainant’s son. He also introduced himself as a trustee of a school and did not pay a man Rs 7 lakh due to him over the painting of a school building, the official said.
“Despite holding no official position in the state or central government, he used fake work permits and NOCs to cheat people of lakhs of rupees,” the police official said.
One complainant alleged that Shah identified himself as a top revenue department official and produced a fake letter from the chairman of the “department of science and research development” to make him install a siren and curtain in a hired vehicle but did not pay for the job, he said.
Bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ahmedabad DEO were used by the accused to cheat the complainants, the police official said.
Police have recovered from his possession fake identity cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of department of science and research development”, “health and family welfare department”, and “road and building department”.
“The FIR is based on complaints by three victims. We appeal to the people to come forward and submit their complaints if they have been cheated by Shah in any way,” Makwana said.