Youth gets jail for murder attempt over cigarettes

He tried to kill his friend because he was refused cigarettes. A trial court has sentenced a youth to a three-year jail term for trying to kill his friend with the help of two others.

District judge S K Sarvaria also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on North West Delhi resident Aman Sethi, who often used to borrow cigarettes from his friend Pankaj Kumar Jha but slashed his neck with a razor when told that his demands would no longer be met.

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Sethi tried to kill Jha with the help of two of his juvenile friends, who are undergoing separate trials at the Juvenile Justice Board.

The court awarded the jail term to Aman, dismissing his plea for leniency on the grounds that he was a young student.