Bengaluru, April 17 -- Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni and 15 others were on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Special Court for People's Representatives here in connection with the 2016 murder of BJP leader Yogeesh Gowda.
The court, after convicting all 16 accused, also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on each of them.
The case pertains to the killing of Yogeesh Gowda, a Dharwad Zilla Panchayat member, who was hacked to death at a gym in Dharwad on June 15, 2016. The assailants had allegedly thrown chilli powder on his face before attacking him.
Investigations later indicated that the murder was part of a larger conspiracy allegedly stemming from political rivalry and personal enmity, with Kulkarni named as a key conspirator accused of ...