Mysore/Mysuru, Dec. 19 -- The city's Third Additional District and Sessions Court has sentenced a man to rigorous life imprisonment after finding him guilty of murdering his employer and stealing 14 kg of silver bars.

The deceased has been identified as Govinda, a silversmith from Bankli village in Sumerpur taluk of Pali district, Rajasthan. The convict, Arjunkumar alias Arjun, also hails from Pumava village in the same taluk.

The motive, crime: Govinda was entrusted with minor works of the Sumatinath Jain Mandir Trust at Halladakeri in Mysuru and was residing in a room on the second floor of the Trust-owned Jnana Mandira building. Arjun was staying with him.

As the Trust required a silver throne for the temple, it had asked Govinda to...