INDIA: ANOTHER ACCUSED GETS CAPITAL SENTENCE IN SENARI MASSACRE CASE

A court awarded death sentence to one more accused person in a case related to massacre of 34 people by the outlawed MCC in Senari village under Karpi police station area in Bihar's then Jehanabad district 17 years ago.
The Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ)-III Ranjit Kumar Singh passed the order convicting an accused Dukhan Ram Kahar to death sentence, besides imposing a fine of Rs 1.80 lakh after finding him guilty in the massacre case. The court had held Kahar's trial separately and 23 witnesses had corroborated his role in the massacre during cross-examination.
The judge had, vide a November 15 order, awarded death sentence to ten convicts and handed out life sentence to three others in the massacre of 34 people.