Two youths have been sentenced to varying jail terms for trying to rob a person at knife-point here, by a Delhi court which relied on the testimonies of the police officials who apprehended them on the spot.
Additional Sessions Judge Atul Kumar Garg sentenced Joginder (25) to seven years in jail for the offence of attempt to commit robbery when armed with deadly weapon under section 398 of IPC.
Three-and-a-half years in jail was handed down to Ravi (24) for the offence of attempt to commit robbery (sec 393) and criminal intimidation (sec 506) of IPC.
"The testimony of prosecution witness 3 and 4 (police officers on patrolling duty who arrested the youths) are reliable and coherent....
"Accused persons are not able to show that there is any enmity between them and the complainant or the police to falsely implicate them with the connivance of complainant," the judge said.
Joginder was also convicted under Arms Act for possessing a knife.
According to the prosecution, late at night on June 25, 2013, north-west Delhi resident Sunny Talwar, a businessman, was walking towards his residence when he was attacked from behind by Joginder and Ravi.
It said that Joginder pointed a knife at him and asked him to part with his belongings.
Talwar, who died during the pendency of the trial, tried to run away and screamed for help. At this time, two cops, who were on patrolling duty nearby, saw Talwar being chased by the two youths and apprehended them, it said.
The court rejected the defence of the youths that there was delay in lodging of FIR, saying, "It has no meaning because the FIR had been registered just within four hours of the incident."
Both the convicts had pleaded innocence before the court, saying that they were young and sole breadearners in their respective families.
