Man gets 5-year jail term for snatching smartphone

Summary: Gurgaon: A city court on Thursday convicted a youth of snatching a smartphone under Section 379-A of IPC even as the complainant turned hostile in the case. Additional sessions judge Vivek Singhal relied on the evidences police had produced in the court to convict Kalonia under Section 379A of IPC. Police, sources said, recovered the phone from Kalonia and registered an FIR against him under section 379A of IPC in Sector-29 police station. He even denied that Kalonia had robbed him of the smartphone. The verdict in the case sends out a stern warning to miscreants," public prosecutor Sharma said.

Gurgaon: A city court on Thursday convicted a youth of snatching a smartphone under Section 379-A of IPC even as the complainant turned hostile in the case. The court, however, relied on the evidences produced by police, sentenced him to five years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him.It is the first time that an accused is sentenced to a five-year jail term on snatching charge in the district, public prosecutor Vikas Sharma said.According to 379A (snatching) of IPC, the convict will be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term not less than five years along with a fine of Rs 25,000. The Haryana government had in October 2015 added two new clauses - 379A and 379B - to Section 379 of IPC in an attempt to make the law against snatching harsher.According to police, convict Vikki Kalonia who hails from Malikpur Village near Delhi's Najafgarh area, snatched a smartphone from Abhishek Rai - a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur - while the latter was waiting for someo ne at Iffco Chowk, Gurgaon, on December 30, 2015.

Rai, however, managed to nab the bike-borne accused and handed him over to police with the help of a few pedestrians who had gathered at the spot. Police, sources said, recovered the phone from Kalonia and registered an FIR against him under section 379A of IPC in Sector-29 police station."The complainant did not support the prosecution in the court. He even denied that Kalonia had robbed him of the smartphone.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Man-gets-5-year-jail-term-for-snatching-smartphone/articleshow/51640950.cms

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