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Five get life term in bus burning case

BANGALORE: The long arm of the law finally caught up with five miscreants who, along with several others, had set fire to a factory bus in 1999 in which two women had died and several others suffered burn injuries. The accused, all former employees of BPL, who had been set free by a lower court, were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Karnataka High Court on Thursday.

A Division Bench comprising Justice K. Sreedhar Rao and Justice Ravi B. Naik partly allowed an appeal by the State and set aside a verdict of a lower court of Bangalore and convicted C. Majesh, P.A. Bharat Kumar, Edwin Noyal, S. Balu and Nagaraj to life imprisonment even as it confirmed the life imprisonment of seven other accused.

All the 13 accused were part of a mob of over 45 persons which had set fire to a bus transporting BPL employees from the factory to their homes. A lower court had convicted seven persons to life imprisonment and acquitted Majesh and five others apart from the rest of the mob.

Additional State Public Prosecutor N. Rudramuni said the dying declaration of the two persons before they succumbed to burn injuries and eyewitness accounts of women passengers in the bus had proved beyond doubt that the six persons released by the trail court were guilty.

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