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Bhagalpur riots: 6 convicted

By Our Staff Correspondent

PATNA May 7. The Third District and Sessions Judge of Bhagalpur, R.C. Jha, convicted six persons and sentenced them to life imprisonment in one of the cases relating to the Bhagalpur riots, in which more than 1,200 were killed in 1989.

Nine others were acquitted in a case relating to the massacre of 11 persons, including seven women, in Tamauni village under Kajrauli police station.

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