1999 Senari bloodbath: SC agrees to listen to plea in opposition to acquittals

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look at the Bihar authorities’s attraction in opposition to the acquittal of 14 folks by the Patna High Court within the 1999 Senari bloodbath — wherein 34 folks have been killed allegedly by Maoist outfits.
A bench of Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari issued notices to these acquitted on May 21.
The state, in its attraction filed by way of Abhinav Mukerji, contended that the HC whereas reversing their conviction by the trial courtroom didn’t take into account the testimonies of witnesses and that the decision was opposite to the proof on document.
The plea stated that the prosecution case is supported by 23 witnesses “of which 13 are eyewitnesses who lost their near family in the mass carnage” and three witnesses who have been injured within the incident. The state stated “it is important to note that none of the accused disputed the date, time, place and manner of occurrence but still stand acquitted by the judgment on a misreading of the law and evidence on record”.

The trial courtroom had awarded dying penalty to 11 convicts and life imprisonment to 3.