District Judge (DJ) O P Gupta handed down the jail term to North West Delhi resident Tarun Kant saying he has shown no sign of "repentance" after his first wife left him due to the regular physical torture and beating by him.
"I have given my due consideration to the arguments and feel that punishment must have the effect of deterrence. The accused (Tarun) has shown no sign of repentance.
"His past acts of beating the present wife and previous wife who was divorced, get revived to call for stiffer sentence," said the judge, while also imposing a fine of Rs 5,000 on Tarun.
The FIR in the case was lodged on his wife's statement to the police that on December 19, 2010 night, Tarun had tried to kill her with an axe, but she had managed to escape after her father-in-law intervened.
Tarun, who was out on bail, was taken into custody in April this year after charges were framed against him for attempting to kill his wife.
Seeking leniency, Tarun's counsel had said the convict is a middle-aged person of 40 years and he "could not have gained anything out of attacking his wife and he had no previous involvement."
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Brushing aside the counsel's submissions, the court said the act of the accused was barbarous as "he attacked his own wife with a dangerous weapon on head and mouth. He repeated the attack and committed the offence in a cold-blooded manner.
"He had already made a preparation. The victim remained admitted in hospital for one month. On earlier occasion also Tarun had damaged an ear drum of the victim. So he deserves to be punished severely." (More)