Overview

• Salim Shaikh was convicted of murdering his 20-year-old son, Imran, after an argument escalated over the son's refusal to call his stepmother 'ammi' (mother).
• The incident occurred in August 2018 in Mumbai's Dongri area, where the father stabbed his son multiple times with a pair of scissors.
• Imran's biological mother initially reported the crime to the police but later attempted to support her husband's claim that the death was a suicide.
• The court rejected the father's defense, citing evidence that the injuries were homicidal, the father's flight from the scene, and his failure to assist his injured son.
• Judge SD Tawshikar sentenced Shaikh to life imprisonment, calling the act cruel but ruling it did not meet the 'rarest of rare' criteria for the death penalty.