Three persons, who had beheaded a Delhi Police Sub-Inspector (SI) and a witness 13 years ago, have been sent to jail for the rest of their lives by Delhi court. The court noted that the “brutality” committed by the convicts was evident as after killing the victims, they beheaded and burnt them and threw the headless bodies in different places.
Additional Sessions Judge VK Bansal said that the three convicts had murdered Delhi Police SI Satish Kumar, who was then posted with the Crime Branch, and Vijay Kumar Swamy, a public witness, by strangulating and beheading them after tying their hands. “The happenings themselves show the brutality committed by the accused. They did not stop here but also burnt the heads of the deceased and their headless bodies were thrown at agricultural department, Bahadurgarh and near a factory on Rohtak Road," the court said in its 267-page verdict.
It sentenced Joginder (42), Rajinder (55), both are brothers, and Vinod Jatav, 34, re residents of Mangolpuri in North Delhi, for offences of criminal conspiracy, murder, robbery, abduction, destruction of evidence under the IPC and under the Arms Act.
“They are sentenced to life imprisonment, that is imprisonment for the remainder of their natural lives for the offence punishable under sections 302 (murder)/120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC,” it said. The court also imposed a fine of `80,000 each on Joginder and Vinod and `83,000 on Rajinder and said that `1 lakh each should be paid to the victims' families out of this amount.
laxmi, the mother of the duo, was also an accused in the case but had died during the trial and proceedings against her were abated.
Prosecutor Harvinder Kumar Nar had sought death penalty for the convicts saying that they had committed the offence in a gruesome manner and there was no scope of their rehabilitation as they also had previous criminal records.
According to the prosecution, the incident took place on March 5, 2004 when Satish and public witness Vijay had gone to Mangolpuri to confirm some information relating to a case. When the two could not be located, a case was registered at a police station.
The next day, two headless bodies were found and identified to be of Vijay and Satish. later, two half burnt human heads were also found by police at different places. During the trial, all the accused had denied the charges and claimed that they were falsely implicated.