New Delhi - An Indian court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced six people to death for killing four members of a low-caste Dalit family in the western state of Maharashtra.
The court in the eastern Bhandara district also sentenced two other defendants to life imprisonment for the murders that took place in the Khairlanji village in September
2006.
Judge SS Das accepted public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam's plea for capital punishment for the men who beat to death the wife and three children of a farmer, Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, over a land dispute. Bhotmange managed to escape and survived.
But the court noted that the prosecution could not produce evidence to conclusively prove that it caste was a motive for the attack.
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New Delhi - About a million employees of India's public sector banks Wednesday went on a two-day nationwide strike to protest the government's policies in the banking industry and the delay in revising wages.
