The court also awarded five years' rigorous imprisonment and Rs 2,000 fine on them after holding them guilty under the Arms Act for possession of illicit weapons used for the murder of the villager.
Ad Hoc court- V judge Ganga Sharan Tripathi passed the order sentencing the accused persons, Pankaj Singh, Manna Singh and Sumit Mishra, to life imprisonment and slapped a fine on each after finding them guilty in the murder of one Devendra Singh on May 7, 2010.
The conviction under the Arms Act will run concurrently with lifer, the prosecution added.
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