Ghaziabad, Feb. 28 -- A court in Ghaziabad on Friday awarded life imprisonment to a 72-year-old security guard convicted of shooting dead a 29-year-old man in the guard room of a private school on Delhi-Meerut Road in April 2018 over a missing mobile phone.

Atul Bhushan, the school's administrative officer, filed a complaint at Muradnagar police station on April 22, 2018, stating that Shiv Vijay was on duty at the main gate when a gunshot was heard from the guard room around 4pm. On reaching the spot, the body of Praveen Singh was found.

The prosecution said the accused, Shiv Vijay, was booked under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant provisions of the Arms Act. Another person, Natthu Singh, was booked only under ...