Keonjhar: Fourteen years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burnt alive by a crowd in Odisha, police have arrested two more accused in the case. The duo was arrested from Keonjhar in Odisha.
Staines, along with his two minor sons - Philip and Timothy, was burnt alive on January 22, 1999 by a crowd while they were asleep in their station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district of Odisha.
Bajrang Dal member Dara Singh and 12 others were held guilty of the crime. While Dara Singh was given death sentence in the case, the 12 other convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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