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SC admits plea against acquittal in Bihar massacre
Monday July 16, 2012 07:58:37 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Supreme Court Monday admitted a Bihar government plea challenging
the acquittal of 23 accused in the massacre of 20 Dalits by the
Ranvir Sena in Bathani Tola in Bhojpur district in 1996.
An apex court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J.
Chelameswar admitted the plea and issued notice to the acquitted
accused.
The trial court had convicted all the 23 accused and had awarded
death sentence to three. However, all of them were acquitted by
the Patna High Court.
The case related to the killing of 20 Dalits by members of the
Ranvir Sena when they attacked village Bathani Tola July 11, 1996
in Bhojpur district, some 100 km from state capital Patna.
The Bihar government in its petition said that the "high court has
failed to appreciate the evidence led by the prosecution in its
correct perspective" and it "resulted in grave miscarriage of
justice and deserved to be set aside".
The government challenged the high court's April 16 verdict
acquitting all the accused, including three who were awarded death
sentence by the trial court.
The trial court May 5, 2010 convicted 23 and acquitted 30 accused.
The convicts were found guilty of rioting and murder.
The government's petition filed by counsel Abhinav Mukherjee
contended that the high court "failed to consider any of the
reasons advanced by the trial court in its well reasoned and
detailed judgment".
The petition said that the impugned orders "disregarded the
evidence of the prosecution witnesses only on account of minor
discrepancies and failed to apply the law" declared by the apex
court in several cases.
Referring to earlier judgments of the apex court, the petition
said that "there would hardly be a witness whose evidence does not
contain some amount of exaggeration or embellishment, sometimes
there would be a deliberate attempt to offer the same and
sometimes the witnesses in their over-anxiety to do better from
the witness-box detail out an exaggerated account".
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