Ahmedabad: A 28-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday after holding he was held guilty of murdering a person over a quarrel regarding cigarette smoking in 2020.According to the prosecution’s case, Hitesh Parmar, a resident of Behrampura, stabbed Ajay Kabira to death on the evening of Nov 3, 2020, in the jurisdiction of Kagdapith police station. Parmar was charged with murder and put on trial. Additional public prosecutor Ajay Trivedi examined 21 witnesses and presented 30 documents to establish Parmar’s guilt.While sentencing the convict, additional sessions judge A N Vora said, “Considering the facts of the case and the submissions regarding the sentence, the accused inflicted injuries with a knife on the deceased in a public place, causing the death of the deceased, and deprived the deceased’s family of their loved one without any reason. Therefore, no mercy can be shown towards the accused.”The court sentenced Parmar to life imprisonment and ordered him to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to the victim’s kin in a month’s time, and in case of default, he was ordered to undergo three more months of simple imprisonment.
