Mohali, Aug. 23 -- Eleven years after a four-year-old boy was killed in celebratory firing during a wedding procession in Mohali's Durali village, his 52-year-old relative was awarded seven years' rigorous imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Additional sessions judge Vikrant Kumar also awarded the convict, Surjeet Singh, a resident of Motemajra, a Rs.20,000 fine under Section 304 (culpable homicide) along with six months' rigorous imprisonment under the Arms Act. Both sentences will run concurrently.

The court rejected the murder charge under Section 302 of the IPC, holding that while the prosecution proved Singh had fired the fatal shot, it failed to establish the intention required to convict him for murder.

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