India, March 25 -- A city court sentenced two people to rigorous life imprisonment for murdering their friend in 2019 after a petty argument during a booze party, by slamming his head on the floor repeatedly inside the office of a commercial complex in Sector 18, Gurugram, police said on Monday.

The court of additional district and session judge Sunil Chauhan also slapped a Rs.25,000 fine on each of the convicts, Manoj Shukla, 30, and Sahil Mehta, 26, while holding them guilty under sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code on Friday evening, officers said.

Shukla is originally from Sohawal in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh and Mehta is from Uttam Nagar, Delhi.

Investigators said that the deceased, Lokesh Sharma...