BHABUA, Dec. 3 -- Three persons, including a father and his son, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Bhabua sessions court on Wednesday for brutally killing a youth over Rs.1,000.

The court of the 3rd district and additional sessions Judge, Vinay Kumar Tiwari, found Ram Iqbal Singh, his son Shailesh Singh, and their co-villager Shesh Muni Singh of Kunj village under Bhabua police station in Kaimur district guilty of stabbing and brutally killing their co-villager Upendra Singh on June 16, 2019, additional public prosecutor (APP) Satish Kumar Singh said.

The court awarded them life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs.25,000 on each of the convicts, with an additional six months' imprisonment in case of default.

The dispute began ...