Lifer for ALL convicts in Kandhamal murder case
October 03, 2013  12:47
A Bhubaneshwar court has sentenced all eight convicts to a life sentence in the murder of Hindu seer Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four others in Kandhamal district in 2008.

Unidentified gunmen shot dead Saraswati and four others, including a woman, at his ashram at Jalespeta in Tumudibandh during Janmashtami celebrations on August 23, 2008, triggering widespread ethno-communal riots leaving at least 38 dead and thousands homeless.
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