India, March 11 -- A Telangana court on Monday sentenced a man to death and awarded life imprisonment to six others convicted for killing a 23-year-old Dalit man, allegedly at the behest of his father-in-law in a sensational case of hate crime in the Nalgonda district of Telangana, people aware of the matter said.

The second additional sessions court dealing with Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Nalgonda district convicted the seven accused and awarded death penalty to Subhash Sharma, and imposed a fine of Rs.15,000 on him and Rs.10,000 each on the six other convicts, after a protracted trial of five years and nine months, involving examination of forensic evidence, post-mortem reports and testimonies of witnesses.

The case date...