The father of slain IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh here on Tuesday filed a petition in Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking life sentence to the alleged killer of his son.
In his petition, petitioner Keshav Singh through his counsel Manish Yadav has urged the High Court to convert the punishment of the accused to life imprisonment as he had intentionally murdered his son. In his petition, Singh said notwithstanding his late son tried to stop Manoj Gurjar from advancing his tractor- trolley; the accused did not stop and rolled down tractor-trolley over him.
Taking a cognizance of the petition, the High Court has served notices to the parties concerned The accused driver Manoj Gurjar had been sentenced to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment by the special CBI court in February last year in connection with the murder of slain IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh. Gurjar had been charged under Section 304 (culpable homicide) and Section 353 (use of criminal force to prevent a government official from discharging his duties) of the IPC and Section 181 of the Motor Vehicle Act. The special CBI court had described the murder of Narendra Kumar as unintentional.
However, father of slain IPS officer in his petition today describing the murder of his son as intentional pleaded before the court to increase punishment of Gurjar and award him a life sentence.
Narendra Kumar had been allegedly mowed down by Gurjar on March 7, 2012 while he tried to resist his tractor trolley loaded with mining stones in Morena.