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Apex
court upholds life for Graham Staines' killer
Friday January 21, 2011 12:13:28 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Friday upheld the life imprisonment awarded to Dara Singh
alias Ravinder Kumar Pal for leading a mob that burnt to death
Australian Christian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in Orissa in January 1999.
While confirming the life term to Dara Singh and his accomplice
Mahender Hambram, the apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam
and Justice B.S. Chauhan said it was not a "rarest of the rare
case" warranting death sentence.
Concurring with the Orissa High Court finding, the Supreme Court
said that Dara Singh and his accomplice wanted to teach Staines a
lesson for his religious activities, including conversions to
Christianity.
Staines and his two sons, Philip (10) and Timothy (6), were burnt
to death by a mob Jan 22, 1999 while they were sleeping in their
station wagon at Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
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