LUCKNOW, Aug. 19 -- A court in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli on Tuesday sentenced 14 people, including former Samajwadi Party district president Ram Pratap Yadav and a dhaba owner Suresh Yadav, to life imprisonment for the 2019 murder of D Pharma student Aditya Pratap Singh alias Ravi following a dispute over payment of a food bill, said Rae Bareli police officials.

District and sessions judge Amit Pal Singh also imposed a cumulative fine of Rs.4.90 lakh on the 14 convicts. Two other accused-Ram Krishna Yadav alias RK and Abhitej Singh-were acquitted for lack of evidence.

Police officials said on October 9, 2019, Aditya of Sikandarpur in Maharajganj area went with his friends to Somu Dhaba in Ratapur under Mill Area police station limits....