Chandigarh, Sep 2 - A court in the Patiala city of Punjab has sentenced to life imprisonment 14 members of a family for killing a man over a land dispute in 2006.

Additional sessions judge P.P. Singh Monday convicted head of the family Kartar Singh, his two sons, four grandsons and seven other relatives for the murder of land owner Sher Singh.

'The agriculture land originally belonged to Sher Singh and he had all the documents with him supporting his claim. However, accused Kartar Singh illegally wanted to grab the land,' prosecution lawyer Sarabjeet Singh told IANS Wednesday.

There was a dispute over the one-and-a-half acre land in village Duggal near Patran town in Patiala, about 100 km from state capital Chandigarh.