New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday rejected a petition filed in the apex court to grant relief to convicts of culpable homicide in a 1991 murder case of Bolangir.
A two-judge bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Navin Sinha Monday dismissed the plea filed to challenge the impugned judgement of the Orissa High Court which in 2016 retained the trial court verdict of rigorous imprisonment (RI) of three years to the convicts.
The trial court had in 1992 ordered acquitting the convicts from murder charges but held them guilty of Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code and ordered three years of RI.
According to the case details, following a feud relating to land dispute a group of men indulged in a fight and in the melee, Raisingh Khandapani, who allegedly tried to diffuse the fight, was attacked on his head by sticks by the one of the convicts and later beaten by the petitioners.
The High Court in 2016 refrained from interfering in the matter and confirmed the order of the trial court. In the petition in the SC, it was stated that as the petitioners had already served three and half months of jail there should be exemption for them against surrendering, which the court dismissed in a hearing which lasted less than 10 seconds Monday.
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