Lucknow: The Additional District and Sessions Court in Deoria has sentenced three men to life imprisonment for shooting dead a 28-year-old man in March 2019. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on each convict under the UP govt’s Operation Conviction initiative.The convicts sentenced are Pramod Yadav, Vijay Yadav and Mahesh Yadav. The murder took place on March 2, 2019, in Ekauna area of Deoria district.The victim, Ramayan Yadav (28), lived in Bangkok for nearly a decade, where he was engaged in business. His family continued to reside in his native village in Deoria, and he had returned home from Bangkok shortly before the incident.On March 2, 2019, Ramayan was going on a motorcycle with his nephew Ankush to withdraw money from a bank in Gorakhpur.When they reached Bakrua embankment, motorcycle-borne assailants shot dead Ramayan. Following a complaint by his wife, a case was registered against the accused.Assistant district govt counsel Nitesh Kumar Pandey said the murder was a fallout over a monetary dispute between the two sides.
