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11 get life imprisonment for Jharkhand beef lynching case

New Delhi: A Ramgarh Court came to the conclusion to award life imprisonment on Wednesday to 11 people for lynching Alimuddin Ansari in June last year who was a meat trader.

A group of people lynched Ansari,40, in Bazaar Tand area at Ramgarh on June 29, 2017 over the suspicion that he was carrying beef.

The sale of beef is banned in the state.

However, forensic tests later confirmed that the meat he was carrying was beef.

The accused, including the BJP's local media in-charge Nityanand Mahto, were convicted by Judge Om Prakash under various sections of the IPC, including 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with deadly weapons) and 149 (unlawful assembly) on March 16.

Additional Public Prosecutor S K Sukla said there were 12 accused and one of them was initially treated as a juvenile. However, the prosecutor later approached the court seeking his trial as an adult as he was aged above 16.

The chargesheet in the case against the accused was filed on September 17.

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