New Delhi: A court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for hatching a conspiracy to kill his brother over a property dispute three years ago. Additional Sessions Judge R. K. Yadav held Mahavir Singh, along with Jagpal, Mushtaq and Subhas Chand, guilty of conspiring to murder his brother Drav Kumar through injecting poison into his body.
While Singh and Chand have been convicted for criminal conspiracy, Jagpal and Mushtaq have been found guilty of murder. According to the prosecution, Singh, a resident of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, had meticulously planned the murder of Kumar by directing the killers to inject potassium cyanide into his body on April 5, 2004. The prosecution alleged that Singh was upset over his brother adopting a male child, who was legally authorised to inherit his property. The court rejected Singh’s plea that he did not have any motive behind the murder of his brother as even after his death, the property would have gone to his adopted son.
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