Ballia (UP), Feb 2 (PTI) A court here sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a woman two years ago over a land dispute.

Additional Sessions Judge Chandra Bhanu Singh on Monday also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on Pramod Kumar Ram.

Kumar had killed Kusam on Jan 1, 2019, in Uttar Pradesh's Kharwar village over a land dispute, according to the FIR registered at the Nagra police station on a complaint from the woman's father Shobhnath.

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