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Tsundur massacre: 21 get life sentence

TSUNDUR (GUNTUR DT.): Twenty one persons have been sentenced to life imprisonment and 35 others one year’s rigorous imprisonment and a penalty of Rs. 2,000 each in the sensational Tsundur massacre case that rattled the nation. Eight Dalit persons were hacked to death in broad daylight on August 6, 1991, with over 400 persons chasing them on the road and along the bund of an irrigation canal, in Tsundur village of Guntur district.

Delivering the judgment seven days short of 17th anniversary of the gruesome attack on Dalits of Malapalli here, special judge Anis of Special Court under the SC/STs Prevention of (Atrocities) Act 1989, felt that it was not the rarest of the rare cases, which attracted a death penalty. In the country’s first-ever special court set up for trying a case under the Act at the scene of offence, the judge acquitted 123 out of the 179 accused persons.

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