Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Oct 26: Firoze (27) and his father, Samshuddin (58), who have been facing the charges of attacking Pushpa and her husband, Krishna Kanchan, residents of Kantarabettu, Ulaibettu, in 2014, have been sentenced to one year imprisonment. A sum of Rs 3,000 has also been levied on each of them by way of fine. The sentence was awarded by JMFC third court here.

Owing to differences over a tree standing in the backyard of Kantarabettu Pushpa and her husband, Krishna Kanchan, Firoze and Samshuddin reportedly had hurled choicest abuses at them besides hitting them with wooden sticks and with their hands on January 26, 2014. Allegedly they also posed death threats. A case in this connection was filed at the rural police station, and the then police sub-inspector, H Shivaprakash, had investigated the case and filed a charge sheet in the court.

The case came up for final hearing in the third JMFC court here recently. Judge of the court, Manjunath R, concluded that the charges levelled against the accused have been proved and sentence pronounced. The court, which awarded one year jail term for attack with a wooden stick, also awarded 20 days imprisonment for trespass, a month's imprisonment for attack by hand, a month's imprisonment for using abusive language and another month's imprisonment for posing death threats. Out of Rs 6,000 to be collected from the guilty, a sum of four thousand rupees has to be disbursed to injured Pushpa as compensation, the court said.

Assistant public prosecutor, Mohan Kumar B, had appeared in this case on behalf of the prosecution.