India, Dec. 13 -- A 37-year-old man was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by a city court on Thursday for killing his 31-year-old neighbour in Sector 12, Gurugram in February 2020, said police on Friday.

The court of additional sessions judge Sunil Chauhan convicted Lavan Batra, 37, under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of Indian Penal Code and imposed an overall fine of Rs.30,000.

Police said the incident took place on the night of February 7, 2020, when Batra called his neighbour, Bunti Hasija, 31, a resident of Madanpuri in Sector 7, to meet him at a secluded spot on the pretext of settling an ongoing financial dispute between them.

Investigators said that Batra had lent some money to Hasija a...