Two persons were given life term by ADJ IV of Hazaribagh court in Beltu massacre case. Additional District Judge Rajkumar Tuli also ordered life imprisonment to two accused in this case. Kailash Sao alias Tapaki and Dhirendra Ram alias Virodhi had been given the death sentence while Chetlal Prajapati and Jagannath Sao will now spend their whole life behind the bars.
In a jam-packed courtroom at about 4 pm ADJ Tuli gave his verdit. He ordered life imprisonment to all the four accused. In this case the PP Nilmani and APP MP Srivastava argued as prosecution lawyers while Advocates Rajesh Prasad, Shashi Bhushan lal, Kishori Mohan and Niranjan Sinha were the defence lawyers.
In the night of 13-14 April 2001, a joint team of two zones of MCC had attacked on Beltu village and killed 14 people including a child belonging to the Gram Raksha Dal. At that time it was said that Kailash Sao was leading the Maoists. The sources at that time said that the incident took place in retaliation of the killing of their two fellows and conspiring against the organisation.
After the incident an FIR was lodged in Keredari Police Station under which the Beltu village is; in it 32 named and more than 100 unnamed persons were made accused. Police started search operation and arrested more than 50 persons in this case. In 2005 Additional District Judge of Hazaribagh AK Chand in his verdict gave the death sentence to three and life imprisonment to 22. Rests got released due to lack of evidence.
Kailash Sao, Dhirendra Ram, Chetlal Prajapati and Jagannath Sao were absconding then. They were arrested after 2010 and then the proceedings began once again. On July 12, the court concluded that all four were involved in the massacre and fixed the date of 17th July for final verdict.