Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 30: Bringing closure to 11-year-old blind murder case, the court of Additional Sessions Judge Jammu, presided over by Ritesh Kumar Dubey, has convicted and sentenced Rahim-ul-Din to rigorous life imprisonment for killing one Mohammad Abdullah alias Dulla in 2014.
The court had earlier, on August 25, 2025, held the accused guilty under Section 302 RPC after the prosecution, led by APP Sunil Sharma, established a complete chain of circumstantial evidence proving that Rahim-ul-Din slit the victim’s throat with a knife on the night of March 30, 2014.
The victim’s body, tied with sandbags and stones and wrapped in a blanket, was recovered from the Garkhal Khad (Kotli Fattu river) on April 14, 2014.
On August 30, 2025, after hearing arguments on sentencing, the court ruled out the death penalty, observing that the case did not fall under the “rarest of rare” category. Instead, the accused was awarded rigorous life imprisonment.
The court noted that while the crime reflected a “shrewd and calculated mind,” mitigating factors such as the convict’s good conduct in jail, his illiterate wife, and minor children aged 10 to 15 years, warranted consideration.
The court observed, “there is reasonable probability of the accused rehabilitating into society. Hence, life imprisonment, not death penalty, is appropriate.”
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