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In India, the court ordered the rickshaw driver to plant a tree and pray five times after riding a motorcycle and then arguing.
According to Indian media reports, a magistrate’s court in Malegaon, Maharashtra, recently convicted a Muslim man in a road accident and brawl case and ordered him to pray five times and plant two trees instead of jail.
A case was registered against 30-year-old Rauf Umar Khan, a rickshaw puller, in 2010 after he was riding a motorcycle and then got into an argument with the biker.
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13 years later, Magistrate Tejwant Singh Sindhu, while pronouncing the verdict in the case, ordered Rauf Umar to plant 2 trees in the mosque premises at the accident site and take care of them instead of punishing him under section 323.
It may be noted that Section 3 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 empowers the Magistrate to release an offender after an admonition or warning not to repeat the offence.
During the hearing, the accused told the court that despite being a Muslim, he does not pray regularly, which the court also ordered him to pray 5 times a day for the next 21 days.
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