KANPUR/JHANSI, Sept. 11 -- The Jalaun district court at Orai in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday sentenced former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Chhote Singh Chauhan to life imprisonment in a 31-year-old double murder case of two brothers in a Jalaun village over local gram pradhan election rivalry.

Special Judge, EC Act, at Orai, Bhartendra Singh pronounced the judgment. Earlier on Monday, the court had convicted Chauhan in the case. On May 30, 1994, two brothers, the then village pradhan Rajkumar aka Raja Bhaiya and his elder brother Jagdish Sharan, a retired revenue official, were shot dead in Binaura Vaidh village under Churkhi police station. Another man Virendra Singh had sustained gunshot injuries in the incident.

Chauhan, who later beca...