Judge S U Baghele is District Judge II and Additional Sessions Judge, Malegaon. (Picture: The Voice of Malegaon)

The court of Judge S U Baghele, District Judge II and Additional Sessions Judge, today awarded a 28-year-old man a life sentence and also slapped him with Rs 2 lakh fine for murdering his own drunkard and abusive father back in 2018. The convict Dnyaneshwar Prakash Borse, a resident of Tehare village, murdered his own 60-year-old father Prakash Mahadu Borse on December 14, 2018 night.

According to the prosecution, the deceased was a habitual drunkard and would frequently beat up the convict’s wife and mother (his own wife) brutally under the influence of alcohol. The deceased would also use abusive language against the convict’s wife and mother in an inebriated condition. 

Additional Public Prosecutor Anil P Bagale said that fed up with his own father’s abusive and violent behaviour, on the said date and time the convict on a motorcycle chased his father who was going to work on a bicycle. After getting hold of his father, the convict inflicted upon the deceased multiple stab injuries on the throat, cheek, abdomen, and on both sides of the waist.  

Advocate Anil P Bagale, Additional Public Prosecutor (APP), made a strong argument and ensured maximum punishment was given to the offender for the heinous crime. 

The convict in order to destroy the evidence burned blood-stained clothes which the deceased was wearing at the time of murder by dousing petrol on them, APP Bagale said.  A case under sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC ), 1860 was registered against the then-accused at Chhavani Police Station with C.R. No 235/2018.

Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) Rahul Prabhakar Kolte attached with the Chhavani Police reported the matter and based on this information a First Information Report (FIR) was registered in the case. Pairvi Adhikari police sipai Sambhaji Tulshiram Pirnaik assisted the prosecution from the beginning till the end. The convict will have to undergo a jail term of one more year if he fails to pay the fine, Judge Baghele observed while dictating the order. 

By Ashfaque Ismail

A law student