Two people were found guilty of the “horrific” crime of pouring acid on a 20-year-old law student in Nowshera Srinagar on 11 December 2014, however the court has deferred its judgement on the severity of sentence until Saturday, August 19.
The judgement will be read aloud on Tuesday, as stated in open court by Jawad Ahmed, the Principal District and Sessions Court in Srinagar.
Counsel for the defendants argued for a sentence of 10 years in jail, taking into account mitigating factors, while Special Public Prosecutor AA Teeli asked the court for the maximum sentence of life in prison.
The RPC Sections 326-A (Voluntarily inflicting severe harm by use of acid), 201 (destroying evidence), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) were found to have been violated by Irshad Ahmad Wani alias Sunny Wazirbagh Srinagar and Muhammad Umar Noor of Bemina Srinagar on Thursday.
I conclude that the prosecution has shown indisputable evidence to support the accusations against the defendants. Irshad Amin Wani and Mohammed Umer Noor (Accused No.2) are found guilty of the charges listed in Sections 326-A, 201, and 120-B of the Pakistan Penal Code, according to the court’s judgement, a copy of which is possessed by GNS.
After reviewing the defense’s arguments, the court concluded that there was “absolutely no material to suggest any probable reason for falsely implicating the accused persons in this case.”
The court had said that the “established facts, circumstances, and the chain of evidence taken cumulatively are so complete and consistent that in all human probabilities the only hypothesis is that the horrendous act of throwing acid on the victim has been committed by the accused No.2 in furtherance of the conspiracy hatched by accused No.1 with accused No.2,” and that “the established facts and circumstances do not leave any reasonable ground for the conclusion consistent w.
On 11 December 2014, notably, a young law student was attacked with acid at Nowshera on the outskirts of the city when she was on her way to college.
Given the severity of the crime, which sent shockwaves throughout the Valley, a Special Investigation Team led by then-SP Rayees Mohammad Bhat (now-DIG South Kashmir), and supervised by then-IGP Kashmir A.G. Mir and SSP Srinagar Amit Kumar, was formed and was able to quickly apprehend the two accused individuals within two weeks. (GNS)
