India, April 23 -- A Ghodnadi-Shirur court convicted a 25-year-old man for murdering his relative following a neighbourhood dispute and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

In the April 17, 2026 judgment, additional sessions judge S P Pol held that the prosecution had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that accused Karan Jalindar Bhole fatally stabbed Subhash Baba Sonawane after a quarrel between the children of the two families escalated into a violent confrontation.

The court observed that the prosecution had successfully established that Sonawane's death was homicidal and that the accused had intentionally caused his death using a knife.

"After considering the facts, evidence on record and submissions made by both sides, the prosecutio...