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Second Additional District and Sessions Court judge, Mangaluru, V.N. Jagadeesh, has sentenced Chidananda Parasu Naika to beingness aft uncovering him blameworthy of murdering his 22-year-old colleague, Chetan, successful the employees’ restroom of Alva’s College successful Moodbidri 5 years ago.
According to the chargesheet, Chidananda and Chetan were moving astatine the Alva’s College canteen and had immoderate differences. In the aboriginal hours of October 30, 2020, Chidananda entered the remainder country holding an robust rod. He abused Chetan, who was sleeping successful the room, and started hitting him with the rod. He continued to bushed Chetan adjacent arsenic his 2 colleagues Rajesh Poojary and Shankar tried to forestall him from doing so. Chidananda snatched Chetan’s mobile telephone and damaged it. The grievously injured Chetan was past taken to Alva’s Hospital wherever helium succumbed.
Based connected Mr. Poojary’s complaint, the Moodbidri Police arrested Chidananda. Police Inspector B.S. Dinesh Kumar filed the chargesheet. Public Prosecutor Jyoti Nayak examined 40 witnesses earlier the court.
On Thursday, November 13, Mr. Jagadeesh sentenced Chidananda to beingness and imposed a ₹5,000 punishment for the offence nether Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The tribunal besides sentenced him to 1 twelvemonth and imposed a ₹1,000 punishment for each of the offences nether Sections 504, 506, and 201 of IPC. He was further sentenced to six months and ordered to wage a ₹1,000 punishment for offences nether Section 448 of IPC. All sentences volition tally concurrently, the Judge said.
