NOIDA: The additional sessions court in Gautam Budh Nagar on Friday sentenced a 55-year-old man to 10 years of imprisonment for robbing a bank in Surajpur in 2012. The court also pronounced Kamal guilty of attempted murder for firing at the police team.R S Bhati, additional district government counsel (ADGC), said the incident happened on October 16, 2012. At 7.45pm, Kamal, along with his four accomplices, Mangal Singh, Dharmendra, Sundar, and Kripal, reached the HDFC bank branch in Surajpur and held the security guard and four other employees hostage at gunpoint. They looted Rs 9.75 lakh, he added.A PCR van patrolling in the neighbourhood sensed foul play and called for additional manpower.A police team reached the spot, and seeing them, the five men fired at them and tried to escape. Subsequently, the cops chased them and arrested Kamal, while his accomplices escaped. The police recovered the stolen cash from him, said Bhati.Kamal and his accomplices were booked for dacoity with arms and criminal conspiracy. Kamal was also charged with attempted murder, rioting, and sections of the Arms Act. He was produced in a district court and sent to judicial custody. He has been in prison since his arrest.During trial, he admitted to his involvement in the dacoity and demanded lenient punishment. On Friday, after hearing arguments from the prosecution and the defence, additional sessions judge Mona Panwar convicted Kamal.From the evidence presented, Kamal has been found guilty of committing dacoity in the HDFC bank branch in Surajpur. The convict is sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 10,000 under sections 395 (dacoity), 397 (robbery, or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the IPC; and seven years of imprisonment and fined Rs 7,000 under IPC Section 412 (dishonestly receiving property stolen in the commission of a dacoity); and 10 years of imprisonment under Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and fined Rs 10,000, the court said. In the case of the attempt to murder and the Arms Act, he was again sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000. The sentences will run concurrently, and the time spent by the convict in jail will be counted as well.We also published the following articles recentlyMaharashtra: Thane court acquits four men accused of dacoityFour individuals from a village in Palghar, Maharashtra, have been acquitted in a dacoity case due to lack of evidence. The accused were alleged to have intercepted a man riding his motorcycle and robbed him of cash and jewelry. The judge noted that the prosecution failed to prove the charges, as there was a possibility the victims injuries were sustained from falling into a ditch and there was a history of enmity between the parties involved.Life imprisonment for 1 in constable murder caseNeetu Kail, a notorious criminal, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a constable and robbery of his rifle 12 years ago. The incident took place during a nighttime vehicle inspection in Shamli district. The court sentenced Kail after his conviction, while 11 other accused were acquitted. Four of the accused have passed away since the incident, and the remaining suspects were acquitted under Section 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy).

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