OKARA: A court in Deepalpur awarded on Wednesday life imprisonment to two brothers who killed a fellow farmer after a brawl over high electricity tube-well bill.

ASJ Muhammad Usman sentenced Pervaiz and Javed to life jail for strangling Zubair some five years ago when he asked them to pay for the water supplied to their fields from his tubewell. They were also awarded Rs 400,000 fine.

Published in Dawn, June 27th, 2019