Thane: A total of 16 villagers from Umbardegaon in Kalyan were handed
down life imprisonment by a district court today for murdering a man in
2012 over a property dispute.
Additional sessions court judge N M
Waghmare convicted all the 16 accused under various sections of the
Indian Penal Code for murder and criminal conspiracy.
"The
prosecution has proved all the charges against the accused beyond doubt
and they all deserved to be convicted and sentenced," the judge said in
the order.
The court relied on the eyewitness account and circumstantial evidence while convicting the accused.
According
to prosecution, the incident occurred on October 3, 2012, when the 16
men attacked one Vikas Patil outside a country liquor bar with swords
following an old property dispute between two families.
PTI
