Eight months after a man, who ran a kiosk in Gurgaon selling beedi, cigarettes and gutkha was set on fire by one of his customers, the accused in the case was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday. The incident took place on May 4, 2019, when the accused, Kanhaiya (21), went to the kiosk owned by Abdul Shakur. Kanhaiya had visited the kiosk the previous day and taken one cigarette from Shakur, but had refused to pay for it. On the day of the incident, when he again took a cigarette, Shakur asked him to pay. Kanhaiya refused, poured petrol on Shakur and his stall and set fire to both. The victim succumbed to his injuries on May 13 at Delhi´s Safdarjung Hospital. The post-mortem found he...
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