SASARAM, Feb. 19 -- A Sasaram sessions court on Thursday sentenced three accused, including two brothers, to life imprisonment in a 2019 case involving the brutal murder of a scrap dealer's son, who was abducted from a Durga pandal. The court also imposed a fine of Rs.30,000 on each of them.

Additional public prosecutor (APP) Anil Kumar Singh said Rohit Kumar, son of Sasaram-based scrap dealer Kashi Seth, was abducted on the evening of September 8, 2019, while he was working at a Durga pandal in the Takia locality of the town. He was taken to the banks of the Baradih Canal, where he was brutally murdered by strangulation and by inserting a rod into his neck. The body was then thrown into the canal. His father subsequently lodged a missin...