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Indian-American gets life term

Washington: An Indian-American has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after he was convicted of killing a student in a shooting spree at a Cleveland university in Ohio three years ago.

A jury spared Biswanath Halder (65), born in Kolkata, the death penalty. The formal sentencing was done by presiding judge Peggy Foley Jones on Friday.

In May 2003, Halder went berserk at Case Western Reserve University and left Norman Wallace, a 30-year-old graduate student, dead in a shooting rampage. Two others were injured in the seven-hour siege.

Halder, who appeared to have shown no remorse during the trial, had a grouse against the university he once attended, accusing a computer lab employee of hacking into a web site he had created to help fellow Indians set up businesses.

Halder hesitantly apologised to the family of the victim after the judge told him that Wallace's relatives were present in the courtroom and that he owed them an apology. — PTI

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