Ghaziabad, Oct. 8 -- A Ghaziabad court has sentenced a former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) councillor and his accomplice, a retired Army man, to life imprisonment for the 2004 murder of a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, Naresh Yadav, who was gunned down outside his office in broad daylight over a political rivalry. The verdict, delivered on Monday by additional district and sessions judge Junaid Muzaffar, found BSP leader Manish Pandit, now 60, and his aide Manoj Kumar, 52, guilty of murder and attempted murder. The two were convicted under Sections 302/34 (murder with common intention) and 307/34 (attempt to murder with common intention) of the IPC. The court awarded them life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs.25,000 each for murder, along w...