Mumbai, Dec 4 (PTI) A court here on Thursday sentenced two men to a jail term of two years for assaulting policemen and attempting to escape custody by throwing a chemical powder into a constable's eyes in 2018.

Additional sessions judge Avinash Kulkarni found the accused - Abbas Jafer Ali Khan (28) and Sunil Chavan (25) - guilty of offences committed under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 224 (attempt to escape custody), 353 (assault to deter public servant) and 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to public servant).

At the time of the incident, the accused duo was held under the Arms Act and the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

The court found that their offence (of assault on policeman and attempt to escape) was "sufficiently grave to warrant a substantive sentence".

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