A Delhi court today sentenced a jilted lover to life imprisonment for killing the mother of a girl who had rejected his advances.Additional sessions judge Dharmesh Sharma took into consideration the deposition of the girl and other evidence including the mobile phone records and extra-judicial confession of the accused to hold him guilty of murder.
The court awarded convict Mohd Akram with the life term along with a fine of Rs 10,000 saying "he has brought a very shameful and abhorable name to what he calls love". "It is disturbing that he chose the path of violence... violence and love are totally incongruous," it observed.
It refused to grant leniency to the convict on the ground that he was just 24 years of age at the time of offence and was a graduate from Khalsa College here, saying that such crimes by jilted lovers be dealt with severely.
"Such crimes are on increase these days and the newspapers are full of stories of jilted lovers indulging in violence for not being successful or whenever their advances are repelled," the court said.
Mohd Akram was arrested for stabbing the mother of the girl at her residence in Timarpur after being infuriated over her refusal to his offer of love on April 18, 2006. The woman had succumbed to the stab injuries on April 29.
After being arrested, he made an extra-judicial confession, admitting that he stabbed the woman and would do the same with other family members of the girl if she did not accept his love.
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