Business tycoon Mohammed Nisham, 40, will have to spend at least 38 years behind bars for the murder of watchman Chandrabose of Sobha City here early last year.
Business tycoon Mohammed Nisham, 40, will have to spend at least 38 years behind bars for the murder of watchman Chandrabose of Sobha City here early last year.
District additional sessions court judge K.P. Sudhir on Thursday sentenced him to life imprisonment for murder and 24 years of rigorous imprisonment for allied crimes and imposed a fine of Rs 70.3 lakh. Out of this, Rs 50 lakh will go to the wife of the Chandrabose as compensation.
The convict was awarded life imprisonment for murder and a fine of Rs 70 lakh under Section 302, IPC, and rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and a fine of Rs 1 lakh under Section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means). Fur-ther rigorous imprisonment is for five years under Section 449 for trespass to commit the offence along with a fine of Rs 10,000. Nisham will also have to pay a fine of Rs 20,000 and spend two years for destruction of property (Section 427). Normally, life imprisonment is meant to last till death, but after 14 years, most prisoners are released on humanitarian grounds.
