Meerut, May 23 -- A local court in Baghpat district sentenced five men, including two brothers, to life imprisonment for the murder of a laborer in Mahavatpur Bawli village in 2014. The convicts were also fined Rs.25,000 each, with an additional one-year jail term mandated in case of non-payment.

The incident, which had shocked the village over a decade ago, took place on November 13, 2014. According to the FIR lodged at Baraut police station, the victim, Sushil Kumar, a daily wage labourer, was sitting at the abandoned house of a villager named Shyame when a group of youths from the same village began playing drums and dancing nearby.

Sushil's sister, Kallo, reportedly asked them to stop the drumming, which led to a heated altercation....