Meerut, Feb. 22 -- A special court in Badaun district found 11 men guilty of kidnapping a man for ransom 24 years ago, a prosecution official said. While ten of them were awarded life imprisonment, another received ten years of rigorous imprisonment.

The court of special judge Rekha Sharma also imposed a fine of Rs.20,000 on each of the convicts.

A case against the kidnapping of Deepesh Sharma, who was then 24, was registered at the Bisaoli police station of Badaun based on a complaint by his father Girish Chandra Sharma, a resident of Sisarka village under the jurisdiction of Faizganj Behta police station area.

Girish, in his complaint, stated that his son, on December 9, 2000, left the house on his motorcycle to invite people to a ce...