A court here has sentenced three men to two years imprisonment for attacking a woman and her son with weapons over an argument regarding installation of their wayside juice stall in 2011.
Additional Sessions Judge Naresh Kumar Malhotra relied upon the testimonies of victims Bilkish and her son Ismail which the prosecution was unable to counter by any means.
"The testimonies of the motherandson regarding the incident of being injured byalltheaccused persons are not shattered in any manner," the judge said.
The court jailed Delhi residents Mithai Lal, his brother Kuldeep Prasad and a relative Lala, and imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of them.
The judge also disregarded the allegations by a female relative of the accused that Ismile had molested her and inflicted cigarette burns on her face, and termed them an "after thought".
"The defence witness (accused' relative) had given a complaint on May 24, 2011 and in this complaint, she has stated that Ismile had slapped her, but in the deposition before the court, she deposed that he burnt her face with a cigarette," the judge observed while noting that she did not intimate the police on the same day of the alleged incident.
"Iamoftheviewthat these complaintsareanafter thought andnoreliancecanbe givenonthesecomplaints," the judge said.
According to the prosecution, the three accused installed their temporary fruit juice shop at the place where Bilkish and Ismile used to do work.
This led to a heated argument which, according to the prosecution, ended up in Lal inflicting knife wound on Ismile and the other accused beating him up and his mother. A complaint was lodged against the accused in March 2011.
The accused pleaded innocence and claimed trial during which the defence counsel argued that the present case is to counter the molestation complaint registered against Ismile.
