A court here Friday sentenced to life Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari along with eight others for the 2008 lynching of a Public Works Department (PWD) engineer in Auraiya town.

The trial court held Tiwari and eight others, including a policeman, guilty for the death of engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta in Auraiya town in central Uttar Pradesh.