"I want justice. I want the death penalty to the convicts in my family's brutal carnage."


Ten years have passed since the Khairlanji massacre of September 29, 2006, and Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, 61, who lost four of his family, was repeating what he has said countless times since. The reiteration on the eve of the anniversary, however, sounded all the more potent as it coincided with the Maratha-Kunbi movement for abrogation of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.The case is now in Supreme Court, with all sides having appealed a Bombay High Court (Nagpur bench) verdict that commuted the death penalty to eight accused (one of them since deceased) to life imprisonment for 25 years.  Read more

Image: Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange