Panchkula, July 19 -- The Panchkula sessions court has sentenced a 65-year-old Dhakoli resident to rigorous life imprisonment for the murder of a property dealer in a planned hit-and-run near HMT, Pinjore, in 2020.

The convict Sanjeev Kumar Arora has been directed to pay a fine of Rs.25,000 and serve an additional year of simple imprisonment in case of default. The court ordered that the period already spent in custody during the trial be set off.

On September 27, 2020, property dealer Narinder Kumar Mittal was heading to his Pinjore shop on a scooty when Arora rammed his Brezza car into him on the Panchkula-Shimla highway, killing him on the spot. The prosecution established that the crime stemmed from a property dispute over a house i...