Mohali, May 8 -- A local court has awarded life imprisonment to a labourer for murdering his co-worker at an under-construction house in Sector 66-B following a drunken quarrel in May 2021 with brickbats and an iron pipe. The fast track special court of additional sessions judge Vikrant Kumar convicted Umesh Singh of Uttar Pradesh, presently living in Mohali, under Section 302 of the IPC for the murder of mason Buti Chaudhary. The court also imposed a fine of Rs.20,000 on him.

According to the prosecution, both the accused and the victim were employed at House No. 1672 in Sector 66-B in 2021, where construction work was underway. Buti Chaudhary worked as a mason and stayed on the upper floor of the building, while Umesh Singh was working...