Mohali, May 1 -- Over six years after two men brutally murdered a 60-year-old man by slitting his throat to usurp Rs.3 lakh from him, a local court on Wednesday sentenced them to life in prison.

The court of additional district and sessions judge found the duo, Ishtekar Khan, alias Sonu, and Shubham Grover, both residents of Khuda Alisher village in Chandigarh, guilty under Sections 302 (murder), 460 (house trespass where death or grievous hurt was caused), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). They were also fined Rs.15,000 fine each.

As per case files, the murder had taken place in January 2019.

Sumit Mor, then station house officer (SHO) of the Nayagaon police station, had received info...