MUMBAI: The eyewitness testimony of an eight-year old girl who saw her mother’s live-in partner bang her four-year-old brother’s head against a wall at their Goregaon home in 2015, has ensured that the man, 35, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
The court noted that accused Taher Pathan was neither under duress nor was he provoked by the child, Ayan Khan. “The accused committed the offence to satisfy his lust to get married to the complainant who is the mother of the deceased. . the accused is not entitled to lenient view for benefit of provisions under The Probation of Offenders Act,” judge AZ Khan said. Under the act a convicted accused can be let off on a bond of good behaviour.
