Sending two robbers to jail, a Delhi court has expressed concern over the security and safety of the public due to a spurt in crime and underlined the need to take urgent steps to rectify this.<\/p>\n
“The deteriorating law and order problem of the city is a matter of serious concern and immediate steps are required to be taken at all levels for ensuring security and safety of the citizens,” said Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau in a recent order.<\/p>\n
She said this while awarding 10 years rigorous imprisonment to Yamin, 26, and Vikas, 24, involved in a robbery in 2011 in north Delhi.<\/p>\n
The court also observed that the city had experienced a spurt in the incidents of snatching, robbery, dacoity, murder and other kinds of crime in the recent past.<\/p>\n
Lau said that 48,161 cases were registered in the year 2010. Among them 1,596 cases were of chain snatching, 567 cases were of looting and 318 cases were of dacoity.<\/p>\n
Use of deadly weapons by criminals while committing crime has spread terror in society and adversely affected the social order and shaken people’s faith in the administration.<\/p>\n
The court observed that Yamin and Vikas were involved in several other cases of robbery, theft and dacoities and were convicted in two and three cases, respectively.<\/p>\n
“Keeping in view the previous criminal records of the convicts, it is evident that they are professional robbers and habitual criminals who have a large number of criminal involvements against them and have also been convicted by other courts,” said Lau,<\/p>\n
She said they were not entitled to any leniency as they did not hesitate to take law into their hand.<\/p>\n
The court said that undue sympathy shown to them would harm the justice system and slapped fine of Rs.10,000 on each of them.<\/p>\n
According to the prosecution, the convicts robbed and grievously injured Braham Dev Singh when he was returning home April 16, 2011 in Bhalswa Dairy area.<\/p>\n
Both of the men, in association with a juvenile aide, injured the victim and robbed Rs.3,500, a mobile phone, an bank card and documents from him, the prosecution said.<\/p>\n
(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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