Mohali, May 9 -- A Mohali court has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for murdering a 30-year-old man and crushing his body under a car to make it appear like a road accident. A third accused was acquitted due to lack of evidence.

The convicts, Dalip Yadav and Jony Kumar, were held guilty under Sections 302 (murder), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code.

The body of the victim, Lalit Kumar, an employee of Big Basket, had been found, with his skull crushed, near Amb Sahib gurdwara, Mohali, on February 7, 2022.

According to the prosecution, police initially treated the case as a road accident and registered an FIR under Sections 279 (rash or negligent driving) and 304-A (rash or negl...