India, Oct. 10 -- A sessions court sentenced five convicts to rigorous life imprisonment on Thursday for shooting a man dead and leaving his brother injured over a rivalry about supplying workforce to an e-commerce firm warehouse in Pataudi in October 2021.

The deceased, Ajit Singh, 44, was the main contractor for supplying manpower to a large warehouse of the firm.

His rivals were supplying a small part of the workforce and wanted to take over the entire business but Singh denied to back down following which they opened fire on him and his brother Mahendra Singh, 46, a restaurant owner, while they were sitting together in Sankpa village on Pataudi road on the morning of October 8, 2021.

Ajit was rushed to a nearby private hospital and...