Kashmiri youth awarded life sentence in Mumbai Parents allege he was targeted for being Kashmiri Srinagar: A Mumbai court Monday awarded life sentence to a Kashmiri watchman earlier convicted of murdering and molesting a woman lawyer, reports said. Sajjad Aziz Pathan, 23, who hails from Uri in north Kashmir’S Baramulla district, worked at the Himalayan Heights apartments when he allegedly ‘stabbed to death’ the 25-year-old woman on Aug 9, 2012. The victim was the daughter of a senior bureaucrat couple. According to report, last week, Sessions Judge Vrushali Joshi pronounced Pathan guilty and said a case of murder, molestation and criminal trespass has been proved against him. Meanwhile, the parents of the youth alleged that their son was fabricated in a false case and has been punished because he is a Kashmiri. “He is a Kashmiri and that is why he has been awarded lifer,” his parents said. “Last year in Chillai Kalan we went there in last time. We asked everything to him and also scolded him. But he told us that ‘they are accusing me only because I am a Kashmiri’. We trusted him,” his father, Abdul Aziz Mughal told said. Aziz said he went there twice to meet his son in prison. “He told us that his (lawyer’s friend) used to fight with him. He also told us that on the night when she was murdered he was at his home and the police arrested him at Haji Peer Shrine’,” he said. On being asked whether they would appeal in High Court, the parents of the youth said: “We are very poor. We don’t have money. Sometimes, we don’t have money even for food.” “I have literally begged before lawyer to fight case of my son. I told him I can’t pay anything and somehow he agreed,” his father said. “Only Allah would do justice with us,” visibly broken, Sara Begum, his mother, said. (Abid Nabi / GNS)
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:05:31 +0000
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