Mumbai: The Dindoshi session on Thursday sentenced four men and sentenced life to killing Local Shiv Sena officials, Ramesh Jadhav, near the Malad Residence (E) in 2014.
The court freed a woman, while one accused, a ruvenile-in -Conflict-with-law, has a case waiting to be tried before the Youth Justice Board.
The murder has caused riots in the area and the case of alleged rioters was waiting in front of the court.
The case listed by Dindoshi police was that the defendant had conspired to kill Jadhav and carry out plans by stabbing him in a fight in Chawl in the Malad (E) on October 21, 2014.
While five were accused, including underage, including underage, including being captured The next day, the woman managed to secure anticipatory guarantee.
Kepu, Jadhav’s cousin, said Sohail Ansari, Yusuf Sazida, Imran Kazi and the minors attacked his neighbors and when he tried to intervene, they also attacked him.
He then called Jadhav for help.
Cousin said when Jadhav tried to intervene, Ansari held him while Yusuf and Kazi pushed him to the wall.
He claimed that Ansari stabbed Jadhav on his chest, his face and hand, while Gullu Sazida was accused of stabbing him with ‘Gupti’ in the thigh.
Jadhav gave up on an injury.
The complainant lawyer, Kaushik Mhatre, in a written submission to the court said it was a case based on a direct and overall eyewitness account, 20 witnesses were examined to prove the prosecution case.
He said the police collected metal pipes with blood stains from places and glued nullu revealed where “weapons (gupti) and hidden blood stained clothes”.
The police found them in the bushes on the building construction site.
Avinash Rasal was appointed as a special public prosecutor, but the local public prosecutor Ravindra Savle and Mhatre argued for complainants.
They said three eyewitness accounts and EM identified the defendant, along with CCTV recordings and forensic reports, was Su-fficient to prove their guilt.
Defense lawyer Bhanudas Jagtap argued that Jadhav had fallen from the first floor of the building and the injury was not caused by STA-BBING.
He examined the defense witness who said he heard someone fall and then saw several men who run the Jadhav crane who had fallen from the first floor and the IR-on stem piercing his thigh.
The witness, a brother of one of the convicts, replaced him and two were accused, including Gullu, bringing Jadhav to the hospital.
But in his cross examination, he could not show the hospital entries or CCTV recordings and prosecution said he was not a reliable witness when he tried to get the release for his brother.
The story of the fall is not supported by medical evidence, the word prosecution.