chennai four people were sentenced to life on wednesday by a district court in kancheepuram for the murder of a 25yearold barber the verdict against srinivasan 24 and his friends arun kumar 24 and thameem ansari 23 of ramapuram in chennai and murugan 22 of mugalivakkam by district court2 judge emks siddarthar came after a trial that lasted a year twentynine witnesses including government officials and the victims relatives were crossexamined the accused were sentenced under ipc sections 302 murder and 201 screening the body and fined 50000 each the money will be given to the victims family as compensation district public prosecutor k sampath said police and court officials said on february 11 2011 police of baluchetty chatram near kancheepuram arrested srinivasan arun kumar thameem ansari and murugan for the kidnap and murder of barber r ravi who owned a saloon in ramapuram the prosecution argued that ravi was allegedly having a relationship with srinivasans aunt he reportedly failed to end the affair despite being threatened by srinivasan on february 10 2011 the four accused kidnapped ravi while he was on his way to his shop and chopped off his head while the body was dumped in the thamal lake in kancheepuram the head wrapped in a polythene bag was buried near a hillock at padavedu village in tiruvannamalai the next day the kancheepuram police recovered the headless body and began investigations after the valasaravakkam police told us they registered a man missing case a day earlier and the relatives identified it as ravis body we narrowed down on the accused said a kancheepuram police officer