Just in: It's life imprisonment for all the 21 people convicted in the 2006 Lakhan Bhaiyya fake encounter case. A local court in Mumbai pronounced the quantum of punishment for the policemen who were convicted on July 5.

Only dismissed police officer Pradeep Sharma has been acquitted of all the charges in the case. Senior cop and accused Pradeep Suryawanshi who was leading the encounter team was convicted for murder. Twenty others, including 13 policemen, were also convicted for various charges by the sessions court.

On November 11, 2006, a police team had picked up Ram Narayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya from Vashi in neighbouring Navi Mumbai on suspicion that he was a member of the Chotta Rajan gang, along with Anil Bheda. Lakkhan Bhaiya was then killed in an encounter near Nana Nani Park in suburban Versova.