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MUMBAI (Reuters) - A Mumbai court sentenced Pravin Mahajan to life imprisonment on Tuesday for shooting and killing his brother and top BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, apparently over a money dispute last year.
Pravin Mahajan shot his older brother Pramod, a former federal minister and high-profile backroom manager of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), at the victim’s home in Mumbai.
Mahajan, regarded as a possible future head of the BJP, died after 12 days in hospital at the age of 56.
Police had said Pravin, who surrendered to the police shortly after the shooting, had confessed to the murder but later retracted the statement in court.
The prosecution said Pravin, who did not have a steady job, was angry after Pramod refused his demand for a large sum of money.
Ujjwal Nikam, the prosecution counsel, told reporters that the prosecution may ask the Mumbai High Court where the trial took place to increase the sentence to the death penalty.
“The case has been solved,” Gopinath Munde, the Mahajans’ brother-in-law, told reporters, stood alongside Pramod’s wife and son. “The important thing is that the court has found him guilty.”
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