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| Friend’s killer gets life term | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 24-1st Additional Sessions Judge Jammu Puneet Gupta today awarded life-imprisonment to Surinder Mohan resident of Adarsh Nagar, Jhajjar (Haryana), Romesh Kumar resident of Mandeela Khurd (New Delhi) and Ajay Kumar of Uttam Nagar (New Delhi), facing trial in a murder case of Ranjan Kumar stated to be close friend of accused Surinder Mohan.
In his 62 page judgment 1st Additional Sessions Judge, after hearing both the sides and also going through the case and witnesses, observed that the act was done by the accused with common criminal intention and is proved without fail. Accused persons are therefore, held guilty and convicted for commission of offence u/s 302 RPC r/w section 4/25 Arms Act. The Court further observed that the convicts have snatched the life of a young man who was hardly in his early thirties and had deprived the family of the deceased of his company. He was the bread earner of the family. Deceased Ranjan Kumar was a close friend of convict Surinder Mohan but this friendship did not fructify and the greed for money coaxed the said Surinder Mohan to kill his friend in cold blooded. In spite of all these circumstances the court is of the considered opinion that the extreme penalty of death sentence is not warranted in the present case, as the accused are neither hardened criminals nor any thing has been brought on record to substantiate this fact and while awarding the sentence Court has to take into consideration the theory of deterrence yet the reformation of the accused should not be overlooked. With these observations Court convicted all the three accused to life imprisonment with a fine of fine of Rs 5000 each u/s 302 RPC. The accused are also sentenced to undergo imprisonment for a period three years and fine of Rs 2000 each u/s 25 of Arms Act, the Court ordered.
According to the prosecution case on December 27, 2000 information was received through reliable source in the Police Station Bagh-e-Bahu that an unidentified dead body is lying on the hill near Tawi River. The dead body was of a male age 30/32 years and the body bore injury marks possibly with sharp edged weapons. A case u/s 302 RPC was registered and the investigation started in the case and identification of the victim was established and the accused Surinder Mohan was arrested from Jhajjar. On the disclosure made by the accused, the police arrested co-accused namely Romesh Kumar and Ajay Kumar from Delhi. On the conclusion of the investigation challan was produced against the accused persons for the offences u/s 302 RPC r/w section 4/25 Arms Act. Deceased Ranjan Kumar is stated to be a close friend of the accused Surinder Mohan; both were engaged in obtaining jobs to the people in consideration for money. The deceased along with the accused on December 17, 2000 had planned to go to Jammu as per the evidence collected by the police agency. The deceased and accused are stated to have checked the hotel on December 19, 2002 and left for Patnitop and after visiting Srinagar all these persons again came back to Jammu and stayed in hotel on December 23, 2000 and left the hotel finally in the night hours at about 10:30. The accused Surinder Mohan brought out Rs 4 lakhs from the attaché of Ranjan Kumar before leaving the hotel. The deceased and the accused had gone to Harki Poudi Temple near Tawi River at about 8:30 PM. On their way back from the temple the accused Ajay Kumar in order to kill Ranjan Kumar caught hold the deceased and closed his mouth, accused Surinder Mohan and Romesh Kumar attacked with kirch on the vital parts of the body of the deceased and after killing the deceased threw the body below the road, the accused returned to hotel at about 9:15 PM. The money which the deceased carried led to his murder by the accused. During the course of investigation the police recovered Rs 3, 81, 000 from the house of accused Surinder Mohan after he made disclosure statement. After completion of the enquiry, police presented challan in the court of law.
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