A Delhi court on Thursday pronounced the quantum of sentence in the 40-year-old Lalit Narayan Mishra murder case and sentenced all four convicts to life imprisonment.

As per reports, district court judge Vinod Goel awarded a life term to all four convicts - Ranjan Dwivedi, Santoshanand, Sudevanand and Gopalj - followers of Hindu sect Anand Marg for their role in 1975 murder of then railway minister Lalit Narayan Mishra.

District Judge Vinod Goel had on December 8 held them guilty of killing Mishra.

The court passed the order after hearing the arguments on quantum of sentence during which CBI left it to its discretion whether the convicts deserved death penalty.

During the previous arguments, CBI prosecutor NK Sharma had submitted that an "undesired time" was taken in the disposal of the case but neither the prosecution nor the accused persons were responsible for it.

Sharma did not seek death penalty for the four convicts, saying the court should decide on the issue whether the case falls under the category of "rarest of rare" warranting the extreme sentence.



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