Thane, A court in Maharashtra’s Thane district has sentenced a 32-year-old autorickshaw driver to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for attempting to murder his wife and stabbing a man who tried to save her.
Additional sessions judge V L Bhosale on Thursday convicted Nazim Daud Khan under sections 307 and 324 of the Indian Penal Code for the 2021 knife attack that left his estranged wife with 40 per cent permanent disability in both hands.
The prosecution stated that the accused chased the victim, sat on her chest, and stabbed her repeatedly, and when Mohammad Isak, a worker who was in the vicinity, intervened, he too was stabbed. Passersby eventually overpowered the assailant, and the victim was rushed to a hospital. The court noted that intent behind the attack was gathered from the nature of the weapon, the part of the body targeted, the number and force of the blows, the manner of the attack and the surrounding circumstances. The court also recommended the matter to the District Legal Services Authority, Thane, for additional compensation under the Maharashtra Victim Compensation Scheme.
The accused married the victim, Rubina, in 2016, and the couple had two sons, according to the prosecution. Out of the recovered fine, the court directed that ₹ 20,000 be paid as compensation to the victim and ₹ 5,000 to the eyewitness. The victim suffered 40 per cent permanent disability of both hands due to multiple cut wounds, they said.
Khan was addicted to ganja and physically abused his wife, causing her to live with her parents eight months before the brutal attack.
