{"id":42754,"date":"2016-04-28T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42754"},"modified":"2016-04-29T04:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T23:05:20","slug":"keshpur-massacre-accused-acquitted-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/keshpur-massacre-accused-acquitted-released","title":{"rendered":"Keshpur massacre accused acquitted, released"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42148\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Marital-disputes.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42148\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/marital-disputes-need-conciliation-settlement-hc\/marital-disputes\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Marital-disputes.jpg?fit=604%2C402&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"604,402\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"child pornography\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;child pornography&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Youth gets life term for killing girlfriend&amp;#8217;s parents&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Marital-disputes.jpg?fit=604%2C402&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42148 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Marital-disputes.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Keshpur massacre accused acquitted, released\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Marital-disputes.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Marital-disputes.jpg?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keshpur massacre accused acquitted, released<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All the 17 accused in the Keshpur killings were acquitted and released unconditionally by a local court\u00a0today, 16 years after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Five CPI-M and one Trinamool Congress worker were killed on January 25, 2000 at Chakgobindapur and Madhupur villages in an armed clash over area dominance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread\"><\/div>\n<p>Seventh Additional judge of Midnapore court Prasad Kumar Ray acquitted and released the accused for want of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety nine people had been named accused by CPI-M in a complaint to the police who chargesheeted 18 of them.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial of the case, one of the accused died.<\/p>\n<p>The judgement today acquitted and released the rest 17.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the 17 accused in the Keshpur killings were acquitted and released unconditionally by a local court\u00a0today, 16 years after the incident. 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Seventh Additional judge of Midnapore court Prasad Kumar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":42148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[146,32748,31987,36523,117,80],"class_list":["post-42754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law-news","tag-court","tag-criminal-news","tag-featured","tag-keshpur-murder-case","tag-law","tag-legal-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keshpur massacre accused acquitted, released - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All the 17 accused in the Keshpur killings were acquitted and released unconditionally by a local court\u00a0today, 16 years after the incident. 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