INDIA: 15 AWARDED DEATH FOR KILLING PRISONER IN JHARKHAND JAIL

06 September 2022 :

Fifteen people were sentenced to death by Jamshedpur court on 18 August 2022 for killing an inmate of the Ghaghidih Central Jail during a clash between two groups in 2019.
Additional public prosecutor Rajeev Kumar said that the court of additional district judge-4 Rajendra Kumar Sinha sentenced the 15 people to death by hanging after convicting them under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy),
The court also sentenced seven others people to 10 years in prison after convicting them under IPC section 307 (attempt to murder), he said. Two of those sentenced to death are at large, police said.
The convicts who have been sentenced to death are Shyamu Jojo, Panchanan Patro, Pinku Poorti, Ajay Mallah, Arup Kumar Bose, Ram Rai Surin, Ramai Karua, Gangadhar Khandait, Rameshwar Angaria, Gopal Tiriya, Sharat Gop, Vasudev Mahato, Jani Ansara, Shiv Shankar Paswan and Sanjay Diggi.

 

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