New Delhi, Jun 26 A Delhi court has sentenced four men convicted of attempted murder to four years and six months of rigorous imprisonment and a Rs 10,000 fine each, saying the sentence imposed should not be so harsh as to eliminate any chance of reformation.
Additional Sessions Judge Syed Zishan Ali Warsi was hearing the arguments on sentencing against Sahil, Sunny, Kapil and Shivam, who had been convicted earlier this month under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 34 (common intention).
According to the prosecution, the four convicts stabbed the victim, Usman, on January 7, 2021, within the Sagarpur police station limits.
The public prosecutor said the convicts did not deserve any leniency for the offence as they committed the heinous offence in broad daylight, in a public place, where knife injuries were brutally caused on the vital parts of the body with the intention to commit murder, and had the victim's father not intervened, the man would have been dead.
In June 8 order, the court said, "The sentence imposed has not to be so much harsh that no chance of reformation is left out, but the same has to be on the basis of a balanced approach of the interest of society as well as reformative interest of the convict, i.e., it ought not to be the antithesis of the reformative approach of any penal legislation."
It said the relevant considerations for sentencing are the facts and circumstances of each case, the nature of the crime, the manner in which it was committed and other attending circumstances.
The court said that, as the convicts have been facing "rigorous trial" since 2021, a balanced approach has to be adopted, and, besides, there was the mitigating factor of their young age.
