Thane:
A fast track court awarded life term to a man besides ordering him to pay a fine of Rs. 10,000 to the widow of the victim in a murder case.
Fast track court judge IB Sheikh relied on the circumstantial evidence besides testimony of the witnesses in pronouncing 47-year-old Bandhu Padvale guilty of murdering 32-year-old Vijay Padwale on March 01, 2010 following a land dispute, prosecution said.
According to additional public prosecutor Hemlata Deshmukh, a group of villagers from Kombadpada-Uprale of Vikramgadh taluka had cooked a meal on the occasion of Holi on March 01, 2010.
She said that the convict Bandhu, who had been involved in a land dispute with the victim Vijay Padwale, approached Vijay at his house on the night of March 1, and insisted him to escort him to his house.
According to the additional public prosecutor, after Vijay left with Bandhu, his wife Ranjana heard shouts from the nearby locality where Bandhu lived. She rushed to the spot and saw her husband lying in a pool of blood. He died near Wada village en route to Thane civil hospital.
The prosecution witnesses told the court that they saw the convict coming out of his house with an axe in hand on the same night