Kandhamal Riots

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  Why Gujarat 2002 Finds Mention In 1984 Riots Court Order On Sajjan Kumar

  Sajjan Kumar verdict: "There has been a familiar pattern of mass killings in Mumbai in 1993, in Gujarat in 2002, in Kandhamal, Odisha in 2008 and in Muzaffarnagar in UP in 2013 to name a few," the Delhi High Court said

• Former Orissa and Allahabad High Court judge dead

  Justice S C Mohapatra, a former judge of Orissa and Allahabad High Courts who headed the Commission probing the 2008 riots in communally sensitive Kandhamal district, died in Bhubaneswar today following a brief illness.

• Seven sentenced for Kandhamal riots

  A local court in Odisha's Phulbani district today sentenced seven persons to five years rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in the Kandhamal ethno-communal riot in 2008.

• Jail for three more men in Kandhamal riots case

  A fast track court in Orissa's Kandhamal district today sentenced three people to rigorous imprisonment for three years for their involvement in rioting and arson in Gudurukia village in the communally sensitive district of Kandhamal on December 26, 2007.Addition Session Judge Sobhan Kunar Das sentenced the trio to rigorous imprisonment and slapped...

• Four sentenced for arson during Kandhamal riot

  A local court on Saturday sentenced four persons to rigorous imprisonment for three years for torching houses during riots in Kandhamal in 2008.Additional Sessions Judge, Chittaranjan Das of fast track court-2 convicted the four for setting on fire the houses of seven persons at Sadakupa village under G Udaygiri police station in September 2008.Alt...

• Four convicted for Kandhamal riots

  A fast track court today sentenced four persons to two years rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 2,500 on each of them for involvement in the Kandhamal riots of 2008.Additional sessions judge Chitta Ranjan Dash announced the sentence after convicting them.According to the prosecution, the four along with others had torched the house of a...

• 12 convicted in Kandhamal riot case

  Two separate fast track courts here today sentenced 12 people to three to four years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) and penalty after convicting them in cases of house burning during the Kandhamal riot in 2008.While disposing a case relating to house burning of minorities at Lengisuga village under Baliguda police station area during the riot, the fas...

• Kandhamal riot case: 3-year jail term for 15 people

  A fast track court has sentenced 15 people to three years' rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in rioting and arson during the Kandhamal riot in 2008.Fast track court judge Sobhan Kumar Das convicting the 15 people of Gudrukia village in Baliguda also fined them Rs1,000 each.The convicted persons were involved in rioting and setting fire to...

• Kandhamal riot cases: 12 convicted, 46 acquitted

  At least 12 persons were convicted and 46 others acquitted on Saturday in Kandhamal riot cases by separate fast track courts in Phulbani.The courts pronounced the judgements while disposing six different cases relating to house burning and a murder incident during the ethno-communal riot in Kandhamal in 2008.At least 38 persons were killed and over...

• 15 convicted in Kandhamal riots case

  A local court has sentenced 15 people to three-year rigorous imprisonment after finding them guilty of setting fire to houses of minorities during 2008 riots in Kandhamal district.The punishment was pronounced by Fast Track Court-II Judge C R Das while disposing a house burning incident which took place at Saudikia village under Baliguda police sta...