A Kalyan court has sentenced a man to eight years of rigorous imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in connection with a fatal assault in Badlapur in 2018, observing that the prosecution failed to establish that he intended to kill the victim.
The incident took place near a grocery shop in Badlapur on the night of Nov 7, 2018, following a dispute between the accused and the victim, Rajesh Waghe, according to the prosecution. Police subsequently registered a case against the accused under Section 302 of the IPC. During the trial, the prosecution examined 11 witnesses and presented medical records and postmortem findings to establish the cause of death as an unnatural head injury. The court also granted Mukane a set-off for the period he had already spent in custody as an undertrial since Nov 8, 2018.
Kalyan: A Kalyan court has sentenced a man to eight years of rigorous imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in connection with a fatal assault in Badlapur in 2018, observing that the prosecution failed to establish that he intended to kill the victim.
The injured man was rushed to a hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival, the prosecution said. During the altercation, Waghe allegedly fetched a wooden rod and handed it to Mukane, who struck the victim on the head.