New Delhi: Ravinder Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh, the Bajrang Dal worker who killed Australian missionary Graham Staines in a village in Orissa in 1999, has now been given a second sentence of life imprisonment.
A court in Baripada has convicted Dara Singh for the murder of Catholic priest Arul Doss.
Public Prosecutor Prasanna Kumar Pani said that four people had been convicted, while 17 others were acquitted.
Besides Singh, the court found Jadunath Mohanto, Cheemma Ho and Rajkishore Mohanto guilty after examining 23 witnesses during hearing of the case the trial for which had begun on September 8, 2004.
Doss was killed on September 1, 1999 in Jamabani village in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district. He was attacked and chased while attending a function and struck down by arrows.
Singh had been given the death sentence earlier for the murder of Graham Staines, but the Orissa High Court had commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.
The High Court had awarded life term to Singh for burning to death Staines and his minor sons, Philip and Timothy, outside a church at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district of Orissa on January 22, 1999.
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