INDIA: 10 AWARDED DEATH PENALTY IN THE CASE OF SENARI MASSACRE

A court in the Indian state of Bihar awarded death penalty to 10 and sentenced three to life imprisonment in connection with the Senari massacre, which left 34 people dead in 1999. 
The Jehanabad court had last month convicted 15 people and acquitted 23 others in the case. According to reports, the police filed a chargesheet against 74 people in 2002, but trial against 56 took place while 18 remained absconders.
According to the prosecution, the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) killed 34 upper-caste people with blunt objects at Senari village under Karpi police station of Arwal, then Jehanabad, on March 18, 1999. The victims were forced out of their houses and lined up near a village temple, where their throats were slit.