Six people have been sentenced to death and 2 have got life term in the Khairlanji murders case.
In one of the worst reported attacks on Dalits, 45-year-old Surekha Bhotmange, her 18-year-old daughter Priyanka, sons Roshan and Sudhir were lynched by a mob in Khairlanji late on the night of September 29, 2006, over a land dispute.
There were also allegations that the mother and daughter were raped. The head of the family, Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, managed to escape and survived. (Watch)
The police arrested 47 people in all during investigation into the incident. The probe was later handed over to the CBI, which filed a chargesheet against 11 people, with the remaining 36 being released as no charges were brought against them. There had been widespread violence at several places in Vidarbha, including Nagpur, Yavatmal and Amravati, in the weeks after the killings.
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