| Ex-major, wife get 10-year jail for trying to kill child |
NEW DELHI A former army major and his second wife were sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Delhi court for torturing and trying to kill their minor son from the officer’s first wife.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs60,000 each on retired Major Lalit Balhara and his second wife Preeti Balhara after holding them guilty of battering the minor boy and trying to kill him after the victim’s mother, herself an army captain, had died in 2000.
The victim’s counsel Ravinder S. Garia had demanded the harshest possible punishment for the convicts, saying the minor has suffered permanent injury and has been left with ‘battered baby syndrome’ for life. The boy, now 13, was first brought to the hospital on April 23, 2002, at the age of three, for treatment of alleged consumption of insecticide by him.
In weeks and months ahead, the hospital virtually became his second home where he was admitted repeatedly for treatment of various injuries ranging from fractured ribs to bleeding skull and smashed teeth and all the time with a starved look.
Agencies
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