A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow has recently awarded a death sentence to a man in a 2012 case of murder of 2 people.
The court of Additional Sessions Judge VS Tripathi sentenced Gabbar alias Sohrab Ali to death for killing a woman and her husband’s friend in a “one-sided affair”. The court also slapped Rs 5,500 fine on convict.
The court stated that Ali be hanged till death, after confirmation of his death penalty from the high court.
Earlier, the court held that the manner in which Ali committed murders of the two fell into the rarest of rare category. Ali was produced before the court from jail through video conference.
The court held him guilty for 2 murders on September 4 and pronounced sentence on Wednesday.
In 2012, the FIR was lodged with Hasanganj police station in the case by the husband of the deceased Urvashi, Hari Prakash Tiwari .
It was stated that Urvashi along with his friend Om Prakash was going to take medicine for his 3-year-old son at about 8 pm on October 9, 2012. Ali stopped them in the way near Ram Krishna Math and stabbed them.
On information, Tiwari reached the spot and the 2 were taken to hospital. Urvashi was declared brought dead while Om Prakash died during treatment on October 17, 2012.
Government counsels KK Sahu and Dushyant Mishra demanded death penalty for Ali, arguing that the manner of killings was gruesome and the murders were executed in a planned manner.
