India, Nov. 16 -- A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced three men to life imprisonment in a mob lynching case, in which a man was beaten to death on suspicion of theft, citing the gravity and cruelty of the crime.

Additional Sessions Judge V G Mohite on Friday found the accused, Ramtej alias Gavya Rama Yadav (29), Amarjeet alias Chabi Bindraprasad Gupta (29) and Chirag alias Kalya Shobhnath Thakur (31) guilty of charges under sections 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 504 (intentional insult) of the Indian Penal Code.

The court sentenced the trio to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on them.

It acquitted another accused, Shivkumar alias Lala Binder Lodh, of all charges, giving him th...