Senari massacre | Patna High Court acquits 13 accused
The Hindu
The violence that occurred in 1999 resulted in the death of 34 persons.
The Patna High Court on Friday acquitted 13 accused persons in the Senari massacre case in which 34 persons were killed on March 18, 1999 by an erstwhile Maoist group in Senari village in central Bihar. In November 2016, Additional District Judge-III of the Jehanabad District Court had convicted and awarded the death sentence to 10 accused persons and life imprisonment to another three. As many as 23 accused persons were acquitted for lack of evidence by the district court and four others who were accused had died. The police had filed the case on information provided by Chintamani Devi, whose husband was among the 34 victims.More Related News
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