A newspaper owner was on Monday convicted by a court for killing his manager in the office premises on May 19 last year.
Additional and Sessions Judge of West Tripura district Kripankar Chakrabarty convicted Sushil Choudhury, the owner and editor of Dainik Ganadoot under sections 302 (murder) and 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.
The punishment would be announced on July 17.
Manager of the newspaper, Ranjit Choudhury, proof reader Sujit Bhattacharjee and driver Balaram Ghosh
were killed inside the office premises at Palace Compound here.
Police after investigation stated that no outsider was involved in the murders.
According to the prosecution, the manager had threatened to expose illegal activities of the owner, including in brokering of land.