Bhavnagar , A court in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar city has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing a woman whom he brutally assaulted at a bus station, delivering the verdict within two months of the crime.
The assault on the woman at the busy bus station had triggered a massive public outcry, prompting the police to constitute a Special Investigation Team . During the reconstruction of the crime scene, police flogged Lakhani at the same spot, with officials claiming that the action was taken to appease public sentiment. A video of the flogging went viral on social media. Baraiya succumbed to her injuries the next day, following which the Nilambag police registered a case of murder. As per the police, Lakhani kicked and punched Baraiya, smashed her head against a wall and the tiled floor, and inflicted fatal injuries.
On September 3, Lakhani savagely attacked Baraiya near the entrance of the bus stand in Bhavnagar. Exactly a month later, on October 4, the police filed a chargesheet against Lakhani. In a swift trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with no possibility of release before the end of his natural life, on November 5. When he found Baraiya sitting with the man at the bus station on September 3, he attacked both of them. The prosecution produced 14 witnesses and nearly 50 pieces of documentary evidence against Lakhani, which the court accepted.
Principal Sessions Judge Rizwana Bukhari handed the sentence to Faisal Lakhani on Thursday after convicting him for the murder of Kajal Baraiya, who lived with him on a footpath for the last eight years as his wife.
