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Dara Singh gets lifer in Orissa priest murder case
Bhubaneswar,
Sept
23:
An
Orissa
court
today
sentenced
Dara
Singh
for
life
imprisonment
for
the
killing
of
a
Catholic
priest
in
the
state's
Mayurbhanj
District
in
1999.
Besides Dara Singh, three others -- Jadunath Mahanto, Chema Ho and Rajkishore Majanto - were also sentenced for life.
District Judge Sachidananda Sahu had found all the four guilty on September 11.
Seventeen others were acquitted in the case due to lack of evidence.
The court had examined 23 witnesses during hearing of the case, which began on September 8, 2004.
The case related to the murder of Rev Arul Doss on September 1, 1999 at Mayurbhanj District's Jamubani village.
Dara Singh is already serving a life term for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines, and his two minor sons, at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar District on January 22, 1999.
ANI
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