Panchkula, Oct. 25 -- Two men, found guilty in a 2023 snatching case, were awarded 10 years of rigorous imprisonment, the maximum punishment prescribed for the crime, by a Panchkula court.

The court of sessions judge Ved Parkash Sirohi also directed the convicts to pay a fine of Rs.25,000 each.

The convicts were identified as Jaswinder Singh alias Jassy, 38, a native of Sangrur, Punjab, and Naresh Kumar, 35, hailing from Palwal, Haryana. Both were living in Dera Bassi, Mohali, at the time of the crime.

Complainant, Amrik Kaur, a resident of Panchkula, said that on Independence Day, 2023, she was returning from a gurdwara around 6 am when two men on a motorcycle approached her and struck a conversation. Suddenly, one of them pushed her,...