PANAJI: The Court of Mapusa has sentenced Anton Paul Britto for three years in prison for the attempt to murder a taxi driver in Morjim in 2012.
Britto has also been fined Rs 25,000, where RS 10,000 must be paid to victims, Shethgaonkar haze, as compensation.
While deciding the sentence, the additional judge session, Mapusa, Sherin Paul noted that the trial had taken about seven years and stated that the detention period was released by the defendant during the investigation and trial departed in terms of part 428 from the procedure criminal code.
The court noted that the victim provided evidence that the defendant followed him, stopped two-wheeled vehicles in front of his car, preventing advanced victims and thus facilitating the attack with a knife.
“The defendant in the case today will definitely know that PW3 stabbing actions (victims) in the chest will tend to cause such death or body injury tend to cause death, given the fact that the stab is on an important part of the body, it is a chest,” The court was held, Added that the wound certificate revealed that there was a collapse of the underlying lungs, where the victim had to undergo surgery.
The Public Prosecutor A Talaulikar stated that the defendant was involved in another violation of the same nature that was waiting for an investigation in front of the Pernem police station while J Fernandes, an advocate representing the defendant was subjected that he had been punished.
Cases of prosecution centered on the evidence of the victim.