India, June 25 -- LUCKNOW Babu Khan, one of the alleged key conspirators in oil trader Shravan Sahu's murder, was granted bail by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Tuesday, nearly nine months after he, along with seven other accused, was awarded a life sentence by a special court of CBI here.

Sahu was shot dead in his shop outside his house in a crowded residential locality of Saadatganj on February 1, 2017. He was fighting the murder case of his 27-year-old son Ayush, who was shot dead by a local gangster, Aqeel Ansari, after a brawl outside a beer shop on Campbell Road under Thakurganj police station on October 16, 2013.

"The double bench of justice Pankaj Bhatia and justice Kshitij Shailendra allowed the bail for Babu Khan...