A court on Thursday sentenced a man and his four sons to life imprisonment after convicting them in a double murder case in Ganjam district.
The Ganjam Additional District Sessions Judge First Class awarded life imprisonment to convicts Dhanu Swain and his four sons Kartik, Amin, Bhagwan and Saroj after hearing the testimony of 19 witnesses and other evidences of the case, said Public Prosecutor Soubhagya Mishra.
However, the court acquitted three women in connection with the case, he added.
As per the case records, some people had killed Gula Swain and his son Rajiv of Jagannathpur under the Patapur police station in the district over past enmity on December 28, 2013.
Police had arrested eight persons in connection with the murder case.
