Court sends 3 men to 4-yr in jail for planning dacoity

Three persons have been awarded four years jail term by a Delhi court for planning to commit dacoity here in 2011.
"It has been proved on record by the prosecution that these persons had assembled with the intention to commit dacoity as they had deadly weapons like country-made pistol and knife," Special Judge Shail Jain said.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of the three convicts who were caught from Maharaja Agrasen Park near Kashmere Gate, while making preparations for a dacoity.
According to the prosecution, on April 4, 2011, the police officials, acting on a tip-off, nabbed Javed, Wahid, Ayyub and Pradeep from the park while they were making plans to commit dacoity in buses going to Shahdara from Mori Gate here. It also alleged that they were armed.

During the trial, the four men claimed innocence and that they were falsely implicated in the case.
The court observed that the defence counsel, during the cross-examination, was not able to bring forth any material suggestions to prove the innocence of the accused.
"The entire stress in the cross-examination has been about the visibility of the persons standing behind the statue of Maharaja Agrasen, which to my mind was not significant," the judge said.
Pradeep had died during the pendency of the trial and proceedings against him were abated by the court.