The death penalty awarded to three men, for being part of a mob which in February 1992 murdered 35 persons of village Bara in Bihar, has been modified by the Supreme Court which acquitted one and sent the other two to prison for their entire lives.
A bench of justices AK Patnaik and Hl Gokhale acquitted Maoist Communist Centre member Naresh Paswan on basis of lack of evidence and shoddy investigation by police.