New Delhi: A Delhi court, while sentencing a man to life imprisonment for attempting to murder a 5-year-old child in 2017, observed that the conduct of the man did not deserve any leniency.The court of Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sahrawat, on June 4, noted that the man inflicted several stone blows on the head of the child and also gave multiple blade cuts on different body parts from head to toe, leaving him at the spot in a bloodbath to die.“Inflicting numerous blade marks all over a seven-year-old child’s body, trying to batter his head with a stone, and leaving the minor to die in a pool of blood showed the man’s ‘barbaric mentality,'” the court said.The ASJ was hearing the arguments on the quantum of sentence against Mohammed Moi alias Mohit, who was sentenced under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 364 (kidnapping to commit murder).Expressing anguish, the court wondered how the convict, a father of three children, attempted to murder the child in such a brutal manner.The act of giving multiple blade marks on the face, shoulder, hand, legs, etc., of the minor child shows the barbaric mentality of the convict, and it also shows the heinousness of the offence, the judge noted.Noting that aggravating factors against the man in the present case are the age of the victim child and the manner of committing the crime, the judge said that at the time of the incident in 2017, the victim child was aged about five to seven years. The convict gave several stone blows to the head of such a minor child and also gave several blade cuts to the body of the child, thereafter leaving the child in a bloodbath at the spot.
