A special court today sentenced four gangsters to life imprisonment for killing an eyewitness in an attempt to murder case.
Additional District Sessions Judge Dinest Gupta held the four-Naushad, Mehboob, Afraj and Kamyab guilty under section 302 of IPC (punishment for murder) and the Gangster Act and sentenced them to life in prison. The court imposed a fine of Rs 60,000 on each of them for killing the eyewitness Rashid Khan, government lawyer Sitaram said.
Khan, who was the Vice President of the Gau Rakshak Committee, was shot dead by the gangsters at village Nagla in district Saharanpur on October 10, 2003 after he refused to withdraw a case of attempt to murder by the four after Khan's team conducted raids against the gangsters for alleged cow slaughtering.
He was the witness of his own case.
