Life Sentences
In February 2006, a court in India convicted nine of the 21 people of murder, sentencing them to life imprisonment. It acquitted 8 others, while issuing warrants for the arrest of four missing persons.
The judgement, called "landmark" by BBC journalist Sanjoy Majumder, brought the case to an end. The case has the legacy of being "one of the country's most controversial and high profile trials." Of the nine convicted for life by the trial court, Bombay High Court acquitted 5 for want of evidence, but upheld the sentence in respect of the remaining four.
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