PANJIM: The Mapusa Additional Sessions Court on Friday sentenced Zenito Cardozo to three years in jail for culpable homicide in the 2009 Siridao gang rivalry case.
Cardozo, who was charged with murder along with two others – Mahavir Nadar and Domnic Nazareth – was discharged of the serious charge. The other two co-accused duo have been acquitted of all charges.
According to the prosecution, the trio allegedly killed Santosh Kalel and Francis Manuel D’Souza alias Mirand from the rival group after a heated argument on May 10, 2009 at Siridao beach. The two groups attacked each other with glass bottles and knives at a shack there.
The court in its judgment discharged Cardozo of the murder charge but held him guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder observing that the murder was not pre-planned and it happened due to an instant fight.
Cardozo was also injured in the fight as a result of which court took a lenient view.
