Police fired 16 rounds in air today when nearly 2,000 villagers of Bhilvan in Patan district pelted stones, leaving four cops injured, after family members of a murder victim entered the village in their protection.Four persons were today sentenced to life imprisonment by the district sessions court for the murder of one Ramesh Prajapati in July 2009, police said. After the sentence was pronounced, Prajapati's brother Chaman and his wife Shweta had come to Bhilvan under police protection to perform some religious ritual, they said. Around 2,000 irate villagers came out in open and began to hurl stones on police in which four of our men were injured, deputy Superintendent of police said. The district sessions court sentenced Sayed Yusuf Mohammad, Hamid Mothia, Irshad Sheikh and Umar Bhagat to life imprisonment for killing Prajapati, while acquitting one Umar Gulam Rasul for lack of evidence. Prajapati's family had left Bhilvan after his death last year and was living in Patan town.
