By IANS
Mumbai : A Mumbai trial court Tuesday sentenced Pravin Mahajan to life imprisonment for killing his elder brother, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, in April last year.
Pravin Mahajan was declared guilty of murder Monday under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and of criminal trespass under Section 449.
Pravin had gone to Pramod’s residence in Purna building, Worli, around 7.45 a.m. April 22, 2006. After a brief argument, he pumped three bullets into Pramod’s abdomen. A fourth bullet got wedged in the revolver, which malfunctioned.
Pravin later surrendered himself to the Worli police station.
The trial took nine months, during which 32 witnesses were examined. The most prominent were Rekha, Pramod Mahajan’s widow, and Gopinath Munde, his brother-in-law and colleague in the BJP.