K.Ram's post 144 above very important
Post 2/3
Court Case against Dara Singh
<b>Summary of news articles below</b>
There were 13 accused in the Staines murder case. 10 of these 13 accused were released because the evidence against them was no evidence at all. The 11th (Dipu Das) was acquitted from Staines' murder as well, but the CBI pinned the murder of another christo, Arul Doss, on him.
In the Staines murder line up, only 2 remained: Dara Singh and one Mahendra Hembrum were sentenced in the end.
<i><b>What should interest every heathen however, is the following - excerpts from the actual news articles follow after:</b></i>
1. Courts acquitted 11 of the 13 because said the courts "the nature of evidence is absolutely weak and on the basis of such speculative evidence, it is not possible to hold any of the accused guilty for criminal conspiracy". About Dara Singh, they said the evidence against him was the same! "Evidence against the accused including Dara Singh" were "of identical nature". Consequently, that "No justification is available from the evidence in record to single out Dara Singh for convicting him".
2. CBI investigation was seriously dubious:
Courts said âWe cannot accept the investigation to be an impartial oneâ about the way the prosecution (CBI) side conducted the investigation.
Courts noted that CBI had tortured at least one of the accused to get confessions.
Courts noted that the CBI had cheated in getting their eyewitness testimony: the courts essentially said the Test Identification parade was rigged by the Christian Bureau of Inquisition, CBI.
3. Dara Singh on 11 May 2005 was still accused in the murder of another christo (Arul Doss) and an islami.
On May 28th, the CBI et al had shifted the blame for these murders onto Dipu Das instead, since by that time they already had Dara where they wanted him and they no doubt wanted this Hindu 'Dipu' out of the way too.
4. The CBI was not pleased when the lack of real evidence against Dara meant the courts overturned his death sentence and gave him life imprisonment instead. Because a dead Dara can't talk and a live Dara had something else to say. CBI tried to get the Supreme Court to go back on HC and give Dara a death sentence, on the grounds that it was a special case "because the motive was communal".
5. Most interestingly for a heathen reader, Dara Singh himself says he is innocent: that he was never at the scene, that his presence at the murder site was only *presumed* because the people who'd gathered there shouted their slogans in his name.
Next to that, he was not allowed to even speak to his lawyer or his brother thanks to christoterrorism having prevailed on his jailors. In his incarceration, Dara was fettered, not given any water or access to toilet facilities. He asked for free communication with the media, water and toilet facilities and to be released from the *shackles* on his feet. Compare this to how the *proven* islamaniac terrorist Mohammed Afzal, who plotted the islamic terrorist attack on Parliament, gets his halaal islamic delicatessen sent to him in his comfortable jail quarters. And how the entire christomedia and crypto-christo brigade of India has been championing Afzal's cause of "Freedom From Justice", while they naturally ignored Dara Singh the heathen. Still, Afzal wants to die because he can't be shaheed, cooped up in prison as he is (he wanted to make islamaniac martyr, but christoterrorists' campaigning for Christoislamic Human Rights Only prevented it).
The above summarises the following news articles (archived at http://christianaggression.org ):
<b>1. The "evidence" against Dara Singh</b>
First, 11 of 13 acquited:
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1117310080
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Eleven of the 13 convicts were set free by the High Court while it struck down the death sentence of Dara Singh, prime accused in the case.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1124391931
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Along with Dara Singh, another person called Mahendra Hembram was convicted in the case. <b>The high court had acquitted 11 others who were awarded life imprisonment by the trial court in the case.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now comes the evidence against Dara, and the way the CBI/prosecution cheated its way through the investigation (torture, forced confessions, tampered with witness identification - the usual christian methods for obtaining 'evidence'):
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1116520475
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Staines murder case: HC sets aside Daraâs death</b>
Posted May 19, 2005
Thursday May 19 2005 10:40 IST
PTI
CUTTACK
newindpress.com
The Orissa High Court on Thursday set aside the death sentence of Rabindra Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh and commuted it to life imprisonment in the triple murder case of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons.
Delivering the judgement in a packed court room, a division bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Sujit Barman Roy and Justice Laxmikanta Mohapatra acquitted 11 others while maintaining the life imprisonment of Mahendra Hembrum.
<b>âThe prosecution (CBI) has not proved beyond reasonable doubt so far their identification is concerned. Their (appellants) conviction and sentences by the trial court cannot be sustained,â the bench observed in a 110-page judgement.</b>
Those who were acquitted by the court include Dayanidhi Patra, Umakanta Bhoi, Kartik Lohar, Rabi Soren, Mahadeb Mahanta, Thuram Ho, Renta Hembrum, Suresh Hansda, Surath Naik, Harischandra Mahanta and Rajat Kumar Das.
The trial court had awarded capital punishment to Dara Singh while handing out life imprisonment to 12 others on September 22, 2003. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>âEvidence against the accused including Dara Singh being of identical nature, they are all equally responsible for the triple murder. <b>No justification is available from the evidence in record to single out Dara Singh for convicting him</b> under Section 302 of IPC,â the court observed. âThere is <b>absolutely no evidence on record that due to individual act of Dara alone</b>, the three deceased persons or any of them died. No particular fatal injuries to any of the deceased has been attributed to Dara Singh.</span>
<b>Therefore, Dara Singh cannot be held individually liable for the triple murder, but he can be liable vicariously along with others by invoking Section 149 of IPC,â the bench observed.</b>
<b>With regard to the charge of conspiracy, the court said, âWe are sorry to say that the nature of evidence is absolutely weak and on the basis of such speculative evidence, it is not possible to hold any of the accused guilty for criminal conspiracy under Section 120 (B) of IPC. Therefore, the conviction and sentences of the appellants under section 120 (B) cannot be sustained and must be quashed.â</b>
Indicating various shortcomings in the investigation with regard to the identification of the miscreants and procuring the confessional statements, the court observed, âWe cannot accept the investigation to be an impartial one.â
<b>In a virtual stricture to the central investigating agency of the country, the court observed, âThere are circumstances to show that the confessional statements of Umakanta Bhoi must have been secured by coercion, duress and threat.â
The court also took exception to the manner in which the test identification (TI) parade was conducted by the CBI. One of the CBI officers who also is a prosecution witness admitted in his evidence that he had shown the photograph of Bhoi to one Mathai Marandi seven days before the TI parade.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This smaller experiment on Dara Singh is not unlike the later one on Sadhvi, Purohit, Upadhyay, Hindoo Community At Large et al.
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1124391931
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The court had held that there was absolutely no evidence on record that due to Dara Singh's individual act alone, the three or any of them had died and had quashed the death sentence imposed on him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In other words, they have no evidence at all that he set the place they were staying in on fire. That's the sum total of the evidence they have against him. They had nothing at all on the other 11 accused - the courts said the evidence against them was "absolutely weak" and could not be used to convict them, and they also admitted that their evidence against Dara was of "identical nature" to what CBI had against the others accused-then-acquitted. Who knows what they have on Mahendra Hembrum - it can hardly be near the 'amount of evidence' they have on Dara, since the media kept/keeps saying Dara did it! And likewise, CBI (see 2 below) was peculiarly after getting Dara sentenced to death, not Hembrum.
2. <b>The CBI wanted the Supreme Court's life imprisonment sentence for Dara Singh to be reverted to the death penalty. </b>"Because", said CBI, this is a special case - because, said the CBI, "the motive of the murder was *communal*". (And special communal cases warrant more Death than unspecial 'uncommunal' cases like christomaoists and christoterrorists murdering Hindu Swami Lakshmanananda, or christoterrorist militants of NLFT murdering Hindu Swami Shanti Tripura).
In other words, christoCBI is saying: "Oh who cares about whether Dara is innocent, just kill him already. He's a Hindoo, the dead dude is an Australian christian. Jeebusjehovallah wants blood."
<b>CBI = christian board of inquisition, not Central Bureau of Investigation (or whatever it used to be called).</b>
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1125900426
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Favouring Australian Missionary, CBI Steps in Staines Case</b>
Posted September 5, 2005
NEW DELHI
PTI [ MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2005 08:00:36 PM ]
In a rare case, <b>CBI moved the Supreme Court challenging the Orissa High court's order to reduce capital punishment to life imprsonment for Dara Singh</b> who burnt alive Australian Missionary Graham Staines <b>and pressed for his death penalty.</b>
In a Special Leave Petition filed before the apex court, CBI described it as "rarest of the rare case" <b><i>because the motive was communal</i></b>, two small children were killed, and the killing was done by roasting them alive and the accused persons disregarded their pleas to come out of the vehicle, CBI sources said.
<b><i>Therefore</i>,</b> the CBI pressed for re-imposition of capital punishment on Dara Singh, the sources said.
Graham Stuart Staines, an Australan missionary who ran a leprosy home at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district, and his two minor sons Philip (11) and Timothy (8) were asleep in their station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district on the night of January 22, 1999, when a crowd surrounded them and set the vehicle ablaze killing all three.
A sessions court had sentenced Dara Singh to death and 11 ohers to life imprisonment but the order was set aside by Orrisa High Court in May this year which converted the death sentence of Dara into a lifer and acquitted 11 others.
CBI challenged the judgment based on the legal points contending the High Court did not consider them in giving its order. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1129761524
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Staines case: SC admits pleas by Singh, CBI</b>
Posted October 19, 2005
NEW DELHI
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 23:58 IST
Daily News & Analysis India
The Supreme Court on Wednesday admitted the cross-appeals filed by Ravinder Pal Singh, alias Dara Singh, against his conviction and life sentence and the CBI seeking capital punishment for him in the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons.
The appeals against the judgment of the Orissa high court were admitted by a bench comprising Justice Ashok Bhan and Justice Altamas Kabir, which took exception to CBI arguments which were not mentioned in the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by it.
When the CBI counsel advanced some reasons for setting aside the high court verdict acquitting 11 accused in the case, the bench said he was referring to the reasons which are not part of the SLP. âAre you reading extra papers which are not in the SLP?â the Bench asked the counsel and said it has only to see the reasons given for acquittal by the high court and it is for the agency to show how it was against the law. The high court on May 19 had set aside Daraâs death sentence for the murder of Staines and his two minor sons â Philip (10) and Timothy (6) â but had upheld life imprisonment on him for being part of an unlawful assembly that burnt them alive.
Along with Dara, another person, Mahendra Hembram, was convicted in the case. However, the high court had acquitted 11 others, who were awarded life terms by the trial court in the case that had sparked worldwide outrage in 1999. The high court had held that there was absolutely no evidence on record that due to the individual act of Dara Singh, the three persons or any of them died and had quashed the capital punishment for him.
<b>Pointing out loopholes in the evidence, the high court had said it was âriskyâ and âdangerousâ to convict so many accused <span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>on the basis of speculative evidence of a witness who did not disclose the matter to anyone except a CBI officer five months after the incident.</span></b>
The trial court had convicted 13 accused, including Dara Singh, under Section 302 (murder) read with 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of crime) of the Indian Penal Code and had awarded life imprisonment to them. The court had awarded death sentence to Dara by finding him guilty under a separate charge under Section 302.
<b>Dara</b>, whose death penalty was commuted into life imprisonment by the high court, <b>contended that his conviction was merely upheld on the basis of presumption of his presence at the site of incident as the mob was shouting slogans in his name.</b> CBI has sought the re-imposition of death sentence for Dara terming the case as rarest of rare.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Post 2/3
Court Case against Dara Singh
<b>Summary of news articles below</b>
There were 13 accused in the Staines murder case. 10 of these 13 accused were released because the evidence against them was no evidence at all. The 11th (Dipu Das) was acquitted from Staines' murder as well, but the CBI pinned the murder of another christo, Arul Doss, on him.
In the Staines murder line up, only 2 remained: Dara Singh and one Mahendra Hembrum were sentenced in the end.
<i><b>What should interest every heathen however, is the following - excerpts from the actual news articles follow after:</b></i>
1. Courts acquitted 11 of the 13 because said the courts "the nature of evidence is absolutely weak and on the basis of such speculative evidence, it is not possible to hold any of the accused guilty for criminal conspiracy". About Dara Singh, they said the evidence against him was the same! "Evidence against the accused including Dara Singh" were "of identical nature". Consequently, that "No justification is available from the evidence in record to single out Dara Singh for convicting him".
2. CBI investigation was seriously dubious:
Courts said âWe cannot accept the investigation to be an impartial oneâ about the way the prosecution (CBI) side conducted the investigation.
Courts noted that CBI had tortured at least one of the accused to get confessions.
Courts noted that the CBI had cheated in getting their eyewitness testimony: the courts essentially said the Test Identification parade was rigged by the Christian Bureau of Inquisition, CBI.
3. Dara Singh on 11 May 2005 was still accused in the murder of another christo (Arul Doss) and an islami.
On May 28th, the CBI et al had shifted the blame for these murders onto Dipu Das instead, since by that time they already had Dara where they wanted him and they no doubt wanted this Hindu 'Dipu' out of the way too.
4. The CBI was not pleased when the lack of real evidence against Dara meant the courts overturned his death sentence and gave him life imprisonment instead. Because a dead Dara can't talk and a live Dara had something else to say. CBI tried to get the Supreme Court to go back on HC and give Dara a death sentence, on the grounds that it was a special case "because the motive was communal".
5. Most interestingly for a heathen reader, Dara Singh himself says he is innocent: that he was never at the scene, that his presence at the murder site was only *presumed* because the people who'd gathered there shouted their slogans in his name.
Next to that, he was not allowed to even speak to his lawyer or his brother thanks to christoterrorism having prevailed on his jailors. In his incarceration, Dara was fettered, not given any water or access to toilet facilities. He asked for free communication with the media, water and toilet facilities and to be released from the *shackles* on his feet. Compare this to how the *proven* islamaniac terrorist Mohammed Afzal, who plotted the islamic terrorist attack on Parliament, gets his halaal islamic delicatessen sent to him in his comfortable jail quarters. And how the entire christomedia and crypto-christo brigade of India has been championing Afzal's cause of "Freedom From Justice", while they naturally ignored Dara Singh the heathen. Still, Afzal wants to die because he can't be shaheed, cooped up in prison as he is (he wanted to make islamaniac martyr, but christoterrorists' campaigning for Christoislamic Human Rights Only prevented it).
The above summarises the following news articles (archived at http://christianaggression.org ):
<b>1. The "evidence" against Dara Singh</b>
First, 11 of 13 acquited:
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1117310080
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Eleven of the 13 convicts were set free by the High Court while it struck down the death sentence of Dara Singh, prime accused in the case.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1124391931
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Along with Dara Singh, another person called Mahendra Hembram was convicted in the case. <b>The high court had acquitted 11 others who were awarded life imprisonment by the trial court in the case.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now comes the evidence against Dara, and the way the CBI/prosecution cheated its way through the investigation (torture, forced confessions, tampered with witness identification - the usual christian methods for obtaining 'evidence'):
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1116520475
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Staines murder case: HC sets aside Daraâs death</b>
Posted May 19, 2005
Thursday May 19 2005 10:40 IST
PTI
CUTTACK
newindpress.com
The Orissa High Court on Thursday set aside the death sentence of Rabindra Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh and commuted it to life imprisonment in the triple murder case of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons.
Delivering the judgement in a packed court room, a division bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Sujit Barman Roy and Justice Laxmikanta Mohapatra acquitted 11 others while maintaining the life imprisonment of Mahendra Hembrum.
<b>âThe prosecution (CBI) has not proved beyond reasonable doubt so far their identification is concerned. Their (appellants) conviction and sentences by the trial court cannot be sustained,â the bench observed in a 110-page judgement.</b>
Those who were acquitted by the court include Dayanidhi Patra, Umakanta Bhoi, Kartik Lohar, Rabi Soren, Mahadeb Mahanta, Thuram Ho, Renta Hembrum, Suresh Hansda, Surath Naik, Harischandra Mahanta and Rajat Kumar Das.
The trial court had awarded capital punishment to Dara Singh while handing out life imprisonment to 12 others on September 22, 2003. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>âEvidence against the accused including Dara Singh being of identical nature, they are all equally responsible for the triple murder. <b>No justification is available from the evidence in record to single out Dara Singh for convicting him</b> under Section 302 of IPC,â the court observed. âThere is <b>absolutely no evidence on record that due to individual act of Dara alone</b>, the three deceased persons or any of them died. No particular fatal injuries to any of the deceased has been attributed to Dara Singh.</span>
<b>Therefore, Dara Singh cannot be held individually liable for the triple murder, but he can be liable vicariously along with others by invoking Section 149 of IPC,â the bench observed.</b>
<b>With regard to the charge of conspiracy, the court said, âWe are sorry to say that the nature of evidence is absolutely weak and on the basis of such speculative evidence, it is not possible to hold any of the accused guilty for criminal conspiracy under Section 120 (B) of IPC. Therefore, the conviction and sentences of the appellants under section 120 (B) cannot be sustained and must be quashed.â</b>
Indicating various shortcomings in the investigation with regard to the identification of the miscreants and procuring the confessional statements, the court observed, âWe cannot accept the investigation to be an impartial one.â
<b>In a virtual stricture to the central investigating agency of the country, the court observed, âThere are circumstances to show that the confessional statements of Umakanta Bhoi must have been secured by coercion, duress and threat.â
The court also took exception to the manner in which the test identification (TI) parade was conducted by the CBI. One of the CBI officers who also is a prosecution witness admitted in his evidence that he had shown the photograph of Bhoi to one Mathai Marandi seven days before the TI parade.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This smaller experiment on Dara Singh is not unlike the later one on Sadhvi, Purohit, Upadhyay, Hindoo Community At Large et al.
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1124391931
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The court had held that there was absolutely no evidence on record that due to Dara Singh's individual act alone, the three or any of them had died and had quashed the death sentence imposed on him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In other words, they have no evidence at all that he set the place they were staying in on fire. That's the sum total of the evidence they have against him. They had nothing at all on the other 11 accused - the courts said the evidence against them was "absolutely weak" and could not be used to convict them, and they also admitted that their evidence against Dara was of "identical nature" to what CBI had against the others accused-then-acquitted. Who knows what they have on Mahendra Hembrum - it can hardly be near the 'amount of evidence' they have on Dara, since the media kept/keeps saying Dara did it! And likewise, CBI (see 2 below) was peculiarly after getting Dara sentenced to death, not Hembrum.
2. <b>The CBI wanted the Supreme Court's life imprisonment sentence for Dara Singh to be reverted to the death penalty. </b>"Because", said CBI, this is a special case - because, said the CBI, "the motive of the murder was *communal*". (And special communal cases warrant more Death than unspecial 'uncommunal' cases like christomaoists and christoterrorists murdering Hindu Swami Lakshmanananda, or christoterrorist militants of NLFT murdering Hindu Swami Shanti Tripura).
In other words, christoCBI is saying: "Oh who cares about whether Dara is innocent, just kill him already. He's a Hindoo, the dead dude is an Australian christian. Jeebusjehovallah wants blood."
<b>CBI = christian board of inquisition, not Central Bureau of Investigation (or whatever it used to be called).</b>
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1125900426
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Favouring Australian Missionary, CBI Steps in Staines Case</b>
Posted September 5, 2005
NEW DELHI
PTI [ MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2005 08:00:36 PM ]
In a rare case, <b>CBI moved the Supreme Court challenging the Orissa High court's order to reduce capital punishment to life imprsonment for Dara Singh</b> who burnt alive Australian Missionary Graham Staines <b>and pressed for his death penalty.</b>
In a Special Leave Petition filed before the apex court, CBI described it as "rarest of the rare case" <b><i>because the motive was communal</i></b>, two small children were killed, and the killing was done by roasting them alive and the accused persons disregarded their pleas to come out of the vehicle, CBI sources said.
<b><i>Therefore</i>,</b> the CBI pressed for re-imposition of capital punishment on Dara Singh, the sources said.
Graham Stuart Staines, an Australan missionary who ran a leprosy home at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district, and his two minor sons Philip (11) and Timothy (8) were asleep in their station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district on the night of January 22, 1999, when a crowd surrounded them and set the vehicle ablaze killing all three.
A sessions court had sentenced Dara Singh to death and 11 ohers to life imprisonment but the order was set aside by Orrisa High Court in May this year which converted the death sentence of Dara into a lifer and acquitted 11 others.
CBI challenged the judgment based on the legal points contending the High Court did not consider them in giving its order. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_di...S&id=1129761524
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Staines case: SC admits pleas by Singh, CBI</b>
Posted October 19, 2005
NEW DELHI
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 23:58 IST
Daily News & Analysis India
The Supreme Court on Wednesday admitted the cross-appeals filed by Ravinder Pal Singh, alias Dara Singh, against his conviction and life sentence and the CBI seeking capital punishment for him in the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons.
The appeals against the judgment of the Orissa high court were admitted by a bench comprising Justice Ashok Bhan and Justice Altamas Kabir, which took exception to CBI arguments which were not mentioned in the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by it.
When the CBI counsel advanced some reasons for setting aside the high court verdict acquitting 11 accused in the case, the bench said he was referring to the reasons which are not part of the SLP. âAre you reading extra papers which are not in the SLP?â the Bench asked the counsel and said it has only to see the reasons given for acquittal by the high court and it is for the agency to show how it was against the law. The high court on May 19 had set aside Daraâs death sentence for the murder of Staines and his two minor sons â Philip (10) and Timothy (6) â but had upheld life imprisonment on him for being part of an unlawful assembly that burnt them alive.
Along with Dara, another person, Mahendra Hembram, was convicted in the case. However, the high court had acquitted 11 others, who were awarded life terms by the trial court in the case that had sparked worldwide outrage in 1999. The high court had held that there was absolutely no evidence on record that due to the individual act of Dara Singh, the three persons or any of them died and had quashed the capital punishment for him.
<b>Pointing out loopholes in the evidence, the high court had said it was âriskyâ and âdangerousâ to convict so many accused <span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>on the basis of speculative evidence of a witness who did not disclose the matter to anyone except a CBI officer five months after the incident.</span></b>
The trial court had convicted 13 accused, including Dara Singh, under Section 302 (murder) read with 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of crime) of the Indian Penal Code and had awarded life imprisonment to them. The court had awarded death sentence to Dara by finding him guilty under a separate charge under Section 302.
<b>Dara</b>, whose death penalty was commuted into life imprisonment by the high court, <b>contended that his conviction was merely upheld on the basis of presumption of his presence at the site of incident as the mob was shouting slogans in his name.</b> CBI has sought the re-imposition of death sentence for Dara terming the case as rarest of rare.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Death to traitors.