Ballia (UP), Dec 10 (PTI) A local court has sentenced a man, his wife and their son to life imprisonment in a culpable homicide case arising from a land dispute, an official said on Wednesday.

Senior prosecution officer P N Swami said the incident took place on the night of July 19, 2021, at Ratsad Khurd village under the Garwar police station limits.

Chhathu Verma was sitting outside his house when his brother Kishun Verma, Kishun’s wife Usha, and their sons, Amrit and a minor, allegedly attacked him with sticks and bricks following a land dispute.

Chhathu sustained serious injuries and died the next morning during treatment at the district hospital. Based on the complaint filed by the victim’s brother, Sohan Verma, police registered a case against all four under the relevant sections

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