Nashik: The Nashik district and sessions court sentenced a 33-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) in an attempted murder case registered against him with the Panchavati police station in Feb 2017.
The convict, identified as Raju Mate (then 24), had attacked his wife Divya Sawant with a shaving blade, inflicting an injury on her throat. However, on Feb 6, 2017, Raju Mate called Divya to More Mala, Panchavati, on the pretext of returning her cellphone. A case was subsequently registered under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 498 (cruelty to a woman by her husband and family members) and other sections of the IPC.
Police said Divya and her husband used to quarrel continuously at their residence along Peth Road. Subsequently, Divya’s father had registered a complaint with the Panchavati police station. Tired of the fights, she left home for her parents’ house. After the incident, Divya’s father lodged a complaint with the Panchavati police against Mate and four other people from his family.
Judge RN Pandhare, who heard the case, after studying the statements of the complainant, witnesses and the circumstantial evidence submitted by the investigating officer, PSI PP Mundhe, found Raju Mate guilty of the offences and sentenced him to 10 years of RI and a fine of Rs 2,000 on the charge of attempt to murder and also ordered him to pay compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the victim in a month or serve another year of simple imprisonment. Divya had come to meet him along with her friend Khushboo. Mate reached the area accompanied by his family. Khushboo was kept busy with another member of Raju’s family While Divya and Mate were talking. He took out a blade and cut Divya’s throat in a bid to kill her.