INDIA: COURT AWARDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO THREE IN BIHAR

at a local court in Bihar, India, Additional Sessions Judge Upendra Bhushan Mishra sentenced Dipak Rai, Jagat Rai and Bacha Babu Rai to death. The three allegedly burnt to death a woman named Baby Devi and her two daughters and three sons at Rampur Shyamchand on December 31, 2005, over a property dispute.