Chandigarh, March 13 -- A local court has sentenced two inmates of Model Jail, Sector 51, to two-year rigorous imprisonment for stabbing an undertrial prisoner with an iron needle during a quarrel in September 2024. The assault took place over setting up bedding inside the barracks.

Judicial magistrate Ajay convicted Hari Parshad and David under Section 118 (1) (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), read with Section 3(5) (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the BNS.

The incident took place on the intervening night between September 11 and 12 in 2024 in barrack number 2 of Model Jail, where the accused and the complainant, Aman, were...