PTI

NEW DELHI, Aug 23: A youth, who robbed an auto driver of Rs 100, has been sentenced to seven years' in jail by a court here which noted that the amount of money being meagre did not lessen the gravity of the crime.

"The contention that only Rs 100 has been robbed has no relevance as only Rs 100 was there along with other documents in the pocket of Roop Ram. Infact the convict had robbed him of all his belongings," Additional Sessions Judge V K Bansal said.

Dismissing the leniency plea of 24-year-old Naresh, a resident of Patel Nagar here, the judge observed that the seriousness of his offence was not mitigated by the fact that he had deprived the victim of only Rs 100.

Naresh was convicted on the basis of "unequivocal and trustworthy" testimony of Ram, who was robbed by the accused on September 24, 2005, near the DND flyover by threatening him with a razor while he was plying his three-wheeler.

The police had later nabbed the accused and recovered the money along with some visiting cards, which were in the pocket of Ram while he was robbed.