Four men get life term in murder case

Four men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a person by a Delhi court which said they had a common intention to to kill the victim, who was becoming a local don, to "teach him a lesson".
The court awarded life term to Sushil Kumar, 32, Saurabh Kumar, 31, Sonu, 24, and Sumit, 23, for murdering Mohammed Shahid, who had only months before come out of jail, and destroying evidence, saying the case does not fall in the rarest of rare category.
"It is also proved beyond reasonable doubts that all the accused were having common intention to commit murder of Mohd Shahid as they wanted to teach him a lesson, who was becoming 'dada' (don) and it also seems to be natural because deceased Mohd Shahid was a convict and was released recently from the jail," Additional Sessions Judge Virender Kumar Goyal said.

The court imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of them.
It also directed the four convicts to pay a compensation of Rs 15,000 each to the family of the victim "on account of loss of love and affection including suffering and emotional distress caused to the family of deceased Mohd Shahid".
According to the prosecution, Shahid's body was found in a drain in Bhalswa Dairy Village in north west Delhi on June 18, 2010 and during investigation his identity was established and police came to know that the victim was last seen with some men, including two of his colleagues, when a quarrel had taken place among them.

Shahid, Saurabh and Sushil were working at the shop of a property dealer and Sumit and Jeetu were the friends of the accused. Few months before the murder, Shahid had come out of jail after serving sentence in a criminal case, police said.
There was a fight between the victim and the four men, residents of Delhi, outside the shop of the property dealer and after beating Shahid, they all took him to some other place where they hit him with wooden plank and bricks and threw his body near a drain, police said.