India, June 3 -- A sessions court has sentenced a Charni Road resident, Gafar Khan, to seven years' imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, nearly eight years after he assaulted his neighbour with bamboo and wooden sticks during a heated altercation. The victim, 24-year-old Mayur Kadam, succumbed to his injuries in December 2016.

According to the prosecution, the violence stemmed from a dispute a few days earlier when Khan and his associates allegedly blocked Kadam and his friends from accessing an area near Parsi Pole due to previous enmity. During the confrontation, one of the men, Akash Yadav, sustained serious injuries. The next day, Yadav, his mother, Kadam, and others went to confront the accused.

In the ensuin...