A sessions court here sentenced a 29-year-old man to imprisonment for life for killing his maternal uncle over a property dispute. Additional sessions judge S U Baghele on Tuesday found the accused Aatish Patel guilty of an offence committed under IPC section 302 (murder).

According to the prosecution, Patel had gone to meet his uncle Kisan Kharvi at the latter's house in suburban Borivali on October 10, 2014, when the incident took place.