A youth, who had robbed a man of Rs 15,000, has been sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi court, which said the "convict must realise that he had done something which is not acceptable by any standard of civilised living".
Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav handed down the jail term to south-Delhi resident Mahadev for the offence of robbery under section 392 of the IPC and imposed a fine of Rs 3,000.
The court, while sentencing him, noted that there seemed to be a compromise between Mahadev and victim Jitender but the convict must be made to realise what crime he has done.
"Mahadev is a young man, barely out of his teens and that the complainant seems to have forgiven him but then compassion and justice is to be mixed in a right proportion so as to do justice compassionately and justifiably.
"The convict must realise that he had done something which is not permissible, acceptable or approved by any standard of civilised living. Thus considering the entire gamut of facts and circumstances, Mahadev is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for two years and to pay a sum of Rs 3,000 as fine," it said.
The court, however, dropped the charges of criminal intimidation against Mahadev while noting that the victim did not support these allegations "may be because of the compromise reflected in the shape of the compensation money or otherwise."
According to prosecution, Jitender, a vegetable supplier, was on his way back home on the intervening night of March 22-23, 2014, and was carrying Rs 15,000 cash.
Mahadev, his neighbour, suddenly attacked him and robbed him off his cash and injured him using some weapon, which could not be identified/recovered, it said.
Jitender lodged an FIR against him two days later after which Mahadev was arrested from his house in Dakshinpuri here.
He denied the allegations against him and claimed to have been falsely implicated by Jitender's father.
