Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 29: Principal Sessions Judge Reasi, S R Gandhi today awarded life-imprisonment and fine of Rs 6000 to Jan Bibi and her paramour Abdul Rashid for killing Nazir Ahmed to satisfy the unbridled adulterous lust.
After hearing both the sides, the court observed, “the circumstances of the case do reveal that it was a cold blooded murder and the victim was bodily infirm inasmuch as he was a tuberculosis patient for a decade and confined to the bed for the last 2/3 years”.
“The motive for the murder was that he was an obstacle for smooth illicit relation between Jan Bibi and Abdul Rashid”, the court said, adding “the murder as such was committed for ignoble cause”.
“The case in hand is almost on the border of the rarest of rare case. However, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and the fact that both the convicts are in sixties the capital punishment is not awarded to them”, the court said, adding “the interest of justice would be sub-served in case the convicts are sentenced to imprisonment for life”.
“Accordingly, it is ordered that each of the convict shall undergo imprisonment for life for the commission of offence under Section 302 of the RPC”, the court directed.
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