Kulgam acid attack case
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 24: Additional Sessions Judge Kulgam Parvaiz Iqbal today awarded three years imprisonment and fine of Rs 17.5 lakh to each of two accused whom he had held guilty in 2010 acid attack case a day before.
The sentence was pronounced today.
The Court awarded three years imprisonment and fine of Rs 17.5 lakh to each accused. He ordered Rs 35 lakh as compensation in ratio of 66:33 to each victim husband-wife.
Judge Parvaiz Iqbal ordered that in the event of failure to pay compensation, the accused will have to undergo life imprisonment.
In 134-page judgment, the Judge had on July 22 held Mohd Yaseen Kolay and Mohd Iqbal Kolay of Kolinad Lamad, Devsar in Kulgam district as guilty in case FIR No. 214 of 2010 of Qazigund police station.
“After a thorough and extensive discussion as well as in-length appreciation of evidence on the touchstone of law, the Court is satisfied that prosecution has successfully proved the gruesome incident wherein the accused, displaying savagery and barbarism to the hilt, caused grievous injuries to Nazir Ahmad Deedad, a Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teacher, who lost his eyes in the acid attack besides leading to permanent disfigurement of his face and damage to other parts of the body,” Judge Parvaiz Iqbal had observed.
The Judge in his judgment on sentence today said the justice demands that the courts should impose punishment befitting the crime so that the courts reflect public abhorrence of the crime.
“The court must not only keep in view the rights of criminal but also rights of the victim of crime,” he said.
The Court further said that the system owes an apology for not coming to succor of the victim’s plight so far despite elapse of one and a half decade of falling of heavens on his tender household.
“The period of detention already undergone shall be set-off from the period of imprisonment imposed. Period of imprisonment for each offence shall run concurrently. The fine amount paid by the convict shall be payable to the victims as compensation in the light of provision under S. 545 CrPC (JK) which is pari material with S 357 CrPC,” the Court ordered.
The Court said Nazir Ahmed has been subjected to lifelong handicap and the trauma of not being able to see, independently walk and losing facial beauty.
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