Haldiram owner, 4 others get life imprisonment in murder case
PTI, 29 January 2010, 06:30pm IST
KOLKATA: Haldiram Bhujiawala proprietor Prabhu Shankar Agarwal was today sentenced to life imprisonment along with four others by a fast track court for conspiring to kill a tea stall owner whose shop came in the way of a food plaza he was building. ( Watch Video )
Judge Tapan Sen of the Bankshall Court awarded the sentence to Agarwal, history-sheeters Gopal Tiwari, Arun Khandelwal, Manoj Sharma and Raju Sonkar under Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) besides 10 years rigorous prison terms under section 307/34 (attempt to murder/common intention).
Tiwari was also found guilty under the Arms Act and sentenced to seven years in one section and three years in another. All the sentences would run concurrently, the judge said in his order.
Agarwal, owner of the multi-crore food and confectionery chain which has outlets in many cities and also in London and elsewhere, had failed to persuade tea stall owner Satyanarayan Sharma in Burrabazar area here to move out as the shop would spoil the facade of the food plaza he was constructing.
His hired goons had then raided the shop looking for Satyanarayan, but not finding him, shot his nephew Pramod Sharma, injuring him seriously on March 30, 2005.
Earlier, Agarwal pleaded for mercy before the judge stating that thousands of his employees and their families depended on him and his incarceration would hamper his business and put their livelihood in jeopardy.
The judge then asked Agarwal whether his business was affected when he was jailed earlier for 45 days. Agarwal conceded that it did.
The other four convicts also prayed for mercy. The prosecution had stated that Satyanarayan had been threatened by the accused a few days before the attack.
Agarwal, who was in London to open his first overseas food plaza at the time of the attack, was arrested when he returned home two months later.
Agarwal was arrested at IGI Airport in New Delhi as soon as he landed and was handed over to Kolkata Police.
Tiwari was arrested from Hyderabad where he was hiding while the other accused persons were arrested here.
All of them were released on bail later. The prosecution, during trial, submitted that Tiwari and his henchmen had embarked on the murder bid at the behest of Agarwal.
All the five had surrendered to the police on Wednesday, when the court pronounced them guilty.
Prabhu Shankar Agarwal has been convicted.
Only on paper.
Now the farce will start.
He will file an appeal in a higher court and while his appeal is being heard he will be out on bail.
He will then use all his money power to bribe and threaten the witnesses so that they will either go missing or become hostile and he will finally be freed.
Even during the time he stays in jail, he will find somebody to take his place while he stays in the comfort of his home.
Such is our police and jail authority.
All a farce for the benefit of the rich and politically connected.
This is MY India
I Love MY India.
And we point a finger at Australia forgetting that when we point one finger at them, three fingers point to us.
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9 comments:
do you have proof for your nonsense? what if he is NOT guilty? does he deserve it then?? check yourself before raising fingers at others. you are just jealous stupid person
Anchal, unfortunately, murderers don't give signed affadavits saying that they have committed a murder, so if your say so, personally, I have no proof.
However, our criminal justice system depends of circumstantial evidence and the evidence of other witnesses to nail down criminals. It is another matter that the witneses sometimes turn hostile later on because of threats and money from the accused.
The evidence against Prabhushankar is so strong that even his own family are distancing themselves from him.
My aim in this blog is to see that criminals are punished and they do not influence witnesses, police and the judiciary with their money power.
Anchal,
I am myself a Marwari.
The Todis (Rizwan case), the Modis (Vedic Village case) and the Agarwals (Prabhushankar) bring disgrace to the name of Marwaris.
I understand you must be close or related to Prabhushankar to be bristled. However, these are the type of people who Swami Ramdeo says should be hanged after quick trials which whould be completed within 6 months, like the new rape laws the government is planning to pass.
Well, if it makes any difference, i AM his family.
i am Mahesh Kumar Agarwal's daughter, and Prabhu papa's fav niece. Right now in the US, i was shocked to hear all this. Having seen what really happened, it hurts to hear the crap people put up on the internet.
Firstly, ponder on why he got a sentence in the first place, even with the system being so corrupt. It's because he did not pay this minister and so the minister turned against him.
Since then, the minister has been harassing bade papa and even my dad(though he did nothing).
Gopal Tiwari had called bade papa in 2005. Now you know that if an underworld don calls you, you will have to go.
Tiwari himself decided that he wanted to shoot the tea-stall owner after my bade papa had left. Bade papa had no clue. Or it might have even been that Tiwari and the tea-stall owner were allies. Do you wonder why the tea stall owner did not die; just got hurt on his foot, even when the shooters were "EXPERT SHOOTERS"? The last judge had raised this question, but this judge was heavily threatened by CPM.
The general public obviously reads the distorted stories of the media; rich means "evil". Poor hai to bahut imandaar hai. It's a way for them to vent their own frustrations. Kabhi hamare ghar aana. We treat our servants too as our own children.
And we, the "family" are far from detaching from him. We are fighting day in and out for justice. I havn't talked to my dad in a month because he is so busy in the court's. Kolkata is the most difficult place to have a business in. you know that, because the government is "anti-progress". May no one have to suffer like this.
u are missing the whole point aren't you. here i am saying he isn't guilty. may god give you better comprehension skills.
sir(sharma1965)i do not know what your source of information is?but if u r relying on the coverage of the media then i would like to quote your own words that this is "MY lovely INDIA" and the media works on the same concept of spicing things up.what information we common ppl get is highly cut,paste and edited.so my question is can we use the concept of"seeing is believing"when it comes to our respected media.please inform me about the information source so that even i can update myself.
Anchal
I won't make any further comments.
QED
of course you wouldn't.
I have just been reading your other blogs, and your whole blogpage seems to be just about you ranting about the headlines of the day and then imagining yourself to be Bob Dylan and writing a "beautiful" reflective poem, which looks pretty silly to me. You are just drawing your own conclusions about every friggin thing! And I don't even mean this particular blog!
Your insecurity is just highlighted by the fact that your comments by others are proctored and you decide what kinda comments you like, despite the pretension about this being a highly polotical blog. Thus, you are decorating your blogpage without any space for refutation. So much so for democracy.
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