Pravin Mahajan has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the cold
blooded murder of his elder brother and senior BJP leader Pramod
Mahajan but the prosecution said it would appeal pressing for the
maximum death penalty. Rejecting the prosecution plea for capital
punishment, additional sessions judge S P Davare said, “The murder is
not a rarest of rare case and therefore death need not be indicted.
This is not an extreme case of grave culpability.”
The sentence was pronounced a day after Pravin (48) was convicted on
the charges of murder and house trespass with the intention to commit a
serious offence. In addition to the life term for the murder, Pravin
was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment for house trespass.
Both the terms will run concurrently. The convict was also ordered to
pay a fine of Rs 15,000 and Rs 5,000 for the murder and trespass
offences respectively.
Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said the prosecution would appeal in the
high court for an enhancement of the sentence. “We will read the
judgment after which we will seek an enhancement of the sentence from
the Bombay high court,” Nikam told reporters outside the court. He said
the murder fell in the rarest of rare case category since he has killed
the “concept of brotherhood”.
Pramod Mahajan’s family said justice has been done though they had
sympathy for the wife and children of Pravin who were suffering for his
acts. During arguments on quantum of punishment, the prosecution sought
death sentence for Pravin, saying he deserved no leniency since he had
murdered “in a brutal manner with total disregard to human life”.
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