Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau awarded the jail term to 27-year-old Abhijeet Raj, a Bihar native, and also imposed on him a fine of Rs one lakh which would be given to the family members of deceased Ashish Sharma.
"Now, I would like to draw a balance sheet of aggravating and mitigating factors. The mitigating factors in this case are that convict Abhijeet Raj is a young boy and has no history of any previous criminal involvement.
The court held that the case does not fall within the category of 'rarest of rare or least even in category of rare case'.
According to the prosecution, on the intervening night of February 26-27, 2012, Abhijeet had murdered Ashish with a knife in Vijay Nagar area near Delhi University here.
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All the friends had gathered at their friend Vijay's house where some of them including Abhijeet consumed alcohol. One of the friends was planning to buy a particular car after which a heated discussion started between Abhijeet and Ashish on cars.
After intervention of other friends, Ashish and Abhijeet were separated and they all left the room when the neighbours objected to their behaviour, it said.