The Additional City Civil and Sessions Court on Monday convicted and sentenced two youths to rigorous life imprisonment for bludgeoning a 25-year-old private firm employee to death over a trivial road rage incident in Mico Layout police station limits seven years ago.

Coincidentally,the verdict and sentencing came on the birthday of the victim,Siddarth Koushal,a native of Bihar who was working for a private firm in the city.

According to the prosecution,Siddarth and his friend who owned a restaurant in Electronics City were returning home in a car around 3 am on June 26, 2018, after closing the eatery.Two of their friends followed them on a bike.

The duo had stopped the car by the roadside to relieve themselves when the accused Girish,son of a builder, and his friend Mahesh brushed thei

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