Earlier this week, a Magistrate in Malegaon, Maharashtra ordered a Muslim man to offer five times namaaz for 21 days and plant two trees in a road-accident brawl case for voluntarily causing hurt (Section 323 IPC). Magistrate Tejwant Singh Sandhu passed the order on February 27 and observed that Section 3 of the Probation of Offenders Act could be applied in the present case. The Act...
