3 get 10-year imprisonment in loot case

A local court has sentenced three robbers to 10 years of imprisonment for looting passengers of a roadways bus in 2008.

Fast track court Judge Punem Rajput held the convicts -- Sompal, Azmat and Shoket -- guilty under relevant sections of the IPC and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on each.

In February 2008, armed bandits looted an UP roadways bus and shot at a passenger on Delhi-Rishikesh National Highway near Purkazi town in the district.