A court in Maharashtra`s Navi Mumbai on Wednesday sentenced a man to one-year imprisonment for beating up a police official and a bus driver in 2017, reported the PTI.
Additional Sessions Judge K R Deshpande noted that the prosecution has proved all charges against the accused, Sachin Prakash Salunke, beyond reasonable doubt, as per the PTI.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on the 33-year-old accused.
He directed that after realisation of the fine amount from the accused, Rs 2,500 each be given as compensation to the policeman and the driver of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) bus, according to the PTI.
Additional Public Prosecutor EB Dhamal told the court that on September 17, 2017, the accused was travelling in the NMMT bus.
When the bus was proceeding towards Dadar in neighbouring Mumbai, the driver stopped the vehicle but no one alighted.
Later, when the bus crossed some distance and was near Kopra village in Navi Mumbai, the accused got up and asked the driver to stop the vehicle.
When the accused did not get any response, he rang the bell several times. He then had a quarrel with the driver.
The accused later abused the bus driver and started beating him up.
A traffic constable, who was also on the bus, intervened and tried to stop their quarrel.
The accused then turned towards the policeman and beat him up, the prosecution told the court.
Six prosecution witnesses were examined to prove the charges against the accused, the prosecutor said.
Saif Ali Khan attack case: Accused sent in judicial custody
Meanwhile, a Mumbai court on Wednesday remanded a 30-year-old Bangladeshi national, arrested for allegedly stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan, in 14-day judicial custody noting that there was no fresh ground for extending his police custody, the news agency reported.
Mohammad Shariful Islam, the accused, was produced before the Bandra magistrate court at the end of his police custody.
Police sought an extension of his custody for two days for further investigation.
The court, however, noted that the accused was in police custody for more than ten days.
(with PTI inputs)
