Phulbani (Orissa), July 1
In the first conviction ten months after riots rocked the Kandhamal district, a tribal leader has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by a local court here on charge of setting ablaze a house of a man belonging to a minority community.
Chakradhar Mallick of Dampidhia village had set the house of one Loknath Digal of the same village on fire during the communal riots that broke out in the aftermath of the VHP leader Laxmananda Saraswati’s killing on August 23, 2008.
Besides, fast track court-II judge Chittaranjan Dash, also the Additional Sessions Judge, imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on Mallick while delivering the judgement yesterday.
— PTI
