India, Feb. 25 -- A court in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday sentenced a Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor and four others to life imprisonment for lynching a fish trader 10 years ago. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs.10,000 on each convict saying the money is to be given to the victim's family.

Tarak Guha, the TMC councillor from ward no 11 of Panihati municipality, his brother Nepal Guha and three others were pronounced guilty by Ayan Kumar Banerjee, the third additional district and session judge, on Friday. The sentence was announced on Tuesday.

Sambhu Chakraborty, the victim, was accused of stealing Rs.10,000 by a group of people and beaten to death at Panihati in September 2014. Tarak Guha was not a counci...