A court in Odisha’s Keonjhar district has sentenced five persons to death for the murder of politician Rama Chandra Behera in 2019.
The additional district and sessions judge of Anandpur pronounced the verdict on March 6 based on the testimony of 53 witnesses and 94 documents, additional public prosecutor Aswini Kumar Mallick said.
The five convicts are Sanjay Prusty, Ajit Prusty, Arun Prusty, Alekh Prusty and Dola Boitei. One of the accused Pramod Das, who was a minor then, is under judicial custody of a child care institute (CCI), Mallick added.
