Muzaffarnagar riots 2013: Court awards life imprisonment to 7 convicts

The court convicted the seven after examining 10 prosecution witnesses and six in their defence

 Seven persons were sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday by a court here for killing two men, which is believed to have triggered the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 in Uttar Pradesh.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Himashu Bhatnagar also imposed a fine of Rs 21,20,000 on each of the seven accused -- Muzammil, Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem, Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal -- for killing Gaurav and Sachin on August 27, 2013 and rioting.

The court said that 80 per cent of the fine will go to the family of the two men who were killed.

This is the first case out of total