3 Ranvir Sena members get death sentence, 8 life term
Additional district and sessions judge Ajay Kumar Srivastava, who had held the 11 guilty in the carnage on August 6, announced the quantum of punishment.
A local court today sentenced capital punishment to three members of Ranvir Sena, a private militia of landlords in Bihar, and life terms to eight others for killing 10 people in Bihar's Bhojpur district.Additional district and sessions judge Ajay Kumar Srivastava, who had held the 11 guilty in the carnage on August 6, announced the quantum of punishment.On March 11, 1998, the convicts had killed 10 villagers at Nagri Bazaar in Bhojpur district.The Ranveer Sena, now defunct, was formed in Belaur village in Bhojpur district in the early 1990s as a confederation of small private armies maintained by landlords.