Man To Receive 2400 Lashes And 5-Year Imprisonment For Punching Breaking His Mother's Tooth

A Saudi man who admitted knocking a
tooth out of his mother's mouth after
punching her has been told he will have
the same tooth broken as
punishment.The unnamed man was also
sentenced to five years in jail and 2,400
lashes to be given out at a rate of 40
every 10 days in a local marketplace.
The man, in his 30s, was arrested after
his mother contacted the police asking
them to rescue her after the attack.While
his mother was taken to hospital, police
took the son before the courts, according
to the Saudi paper Okaz.
The judge, Turki Al Qarni, issued the
ruling after a medical report showed the
son was mentally stable, and had not
taken drugs or drunk alcohol.The ruling is
based on a verse from the Koran which
reads: 'And We ordained therein for
them: A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a
tooth for a tooth'.