YEREVAN, JULY 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The first instance court of the Ararat region, presided over by judge Levon Arazian, by the July 2 judgement sentenced Gegham Badalian, accused of killing Tigran Petrosian, the Head of the village of Dalar, to 12 years' imprisonment. On August 30, 2006, G. Badalian shot four times at T. Petrosian with a one-barrelled gun belonging to him. T. Petrosian, who was in his car in the the yard of the Dalar administration building, died on the spot. According to the prosecution's conclusion, when making inventory at the Dalar administration in 2005 December, the newly elected Head of the village of Dalar, T. Petrosian, revealing the facts of abuse committed by the former village head, G. Badalian, informed law enforcement bodies about it and in June 2006 submitted claims to the first instance court of the Ararat region, because of which G. Badalian decided to take revenge on T. Petrosian and to kill him.

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