Court Orders Convict to Plant Trees & Offer Namaz Instead of Jail Sentence

Nasik (Maharashtra): Malegaon magistrate court in the Nasik district of Maharashtra has ordered an autorickshaw driver to plant two trees and offer namaz five times a day to a convict. The convict was found guilty of voluntarily causing hurt in a case of road rage.

The accused, identified as Rauf Khan Umar Khan was an autorickshaw driver. Reportedly his auto had hit a stationary bike in a narrow lane of the power-loom town of Malegaon in 2010.

As the complainant questioned him about it, Khan assaulted the complainant. Khan was booked under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

The magistrate held that Khan was guilty under Section 323, he was acquitted under the remaining offences.

“According to me, giving appropriate warning means to give an understanding that the crime has been committed, the accused has been proven guilty and he remembers the same so that he does not repeat the offence again,” the court observed.