Agartala: A court in Tripura on Thursday awarded life imprisonment till death to a newspaper editor-cum-owner in a year-old triple murder case, a public prosecutor said.

Kripankur Chakraborty, additional district and sessions judge of West Tripura district, also slapped a fine of Rs.70,000 on 73-year-old Sushil Choudhury, the editor-cum-owner of Bengali daily 'Dainik Ganadoot'.The judge "awarded the rigorous life imprisonment till his (Choudhury) death for murdering three of his employees May 19, 2013", special public prosecutor Dilip Sarkar told reporters after the judgment.