[Al Jazeera] Imtiaz Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy, and Majloom Ansari, a 32-year-old cattle trader, were kidnapped, beaten and hanged from a tree in Latehar in the Indian state of Jharkhand in March 2016. The two had been walking with their oxen they planned to sell at a cattle fair, some 40km away, when they were intercepted by members of a Hindu "cow protection committee" in the next village and fatally attacked.
They were beaten with sticks and axes, and hanged from a tree with the same nylon ropes they used for their cattle.
Now, more than two years later, a Latehar district court found the eight involved in the killings guilty of murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
As the accused were brought to court, around 100 supporters shouted slogans such as 'Bharat Mata ki jai' (Glory be to mother India) and 'Gau hatya band karo' (Stop killing cows).
Friday's ruling is only the second such conviction in a series of lynchings by Hindu cow vigilantes across India in the last few years.