Five year imprisonment for stealing RS 370

BAREILLY, July 20: After 29 years a court in Bareilly has sentenced two men to five years in jail for stealing Rs 370. Apparently, they had drugged a man in a train in 1988 when they stole the amount from him.

The two have been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing Rs 370 from a man they had drugged in a train in 1988.

The third accused in the case, Chandra Pal, died in 2004

The two surviving accused, Lal and Sarvesh, who are now in their sixties and have grown-up sons and daughters

The court of the additional district and sessions judge in Bareilly has, in its order on Tuesday, also fined the accused Rs 10,000 each. The third person who was accused in the case had died in 2004.

On October 21, 1988, Chandra Pal, Kanhaiya Lal and Sarvesh had offered Wajid Husain tea laced with drugs as he was traveling on a train from Shahjahanpur to Punjab for a job. The three had then taken away the Rs 370 that he had in his pocket.