Two years jail for 25-year-old youth for robbing Rs 5,000

A Delhi court has sentenced a youth to two years rigorous imprisonment for robbing a man of Rs 5,000 at knife point with the help of his accomplices.
Additional Sessions Judge Manoj Jain jailed 25-year-old north-west Delhi resident Kamaljeet for robbing one Brijesh Swami after entering the victim's car deceitfully.
"Taking stock of the aforesaid aggravating and mitigating circumstances and particularly keeping in mind his young age and his family, I sentence convict to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two years with a fine of Rs 10,000...," the judge said.
The court said out of Rs 10,000 fine amount, Rs 5,000 be given to the complainant.

According to the prosecution, on December 6 last year, three persons including Kamaljeet entered Swami's car when he stopped near a public convenience in Mangolpuri area in north west Delhi to ease himself.
The trio held Swami at knife point and robbed him of Rs 5,000 and fled, the prosecution said.

The court held that Swami identified Kamaljeet as one of the robbers and found that he was sharing common intention with his two accomplices who are still absconding.
It also rejected the submission of the defence counsel that there were many omissions in the victim's testimony and said, "minor and trivial contradictions are bound to surface in any criminal trial. The contradictions which have been highlighted by defence are very petty in nature and do not make the case of prosecution a suspectful one."

The court observed that all three accused shared common and similar intention and were partners-in-crime.
Kamaljeet's counsel prayed for leniency in sentence saying that he was young and has to support his family including a five-month-old daughter.
While awarding the jail term, the court perused the convict's previous case files and found that he was involved in nine other matters, including two robbery cases.