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Khairlanji verdict hearing on Oct 20 15 Oct 2008, 1529 hrs IST,PTI NAGPUR: The High Court Bench will deliver a verdict on October 20 on confirmation of sentences awarded to the accused of killing four members of a Da lit family in Khairlanji village. Division Bench of Justice Dilip Sinha and Justice A P Bhangale on Tuesday posted the matter for hearing on October 20. All documents pertaining to the case have been sent to the High Court for ratification of the death sentence to six persons and life sentence given to two persons in connection with the killings of four members of the Bhotmange family at Khairlanji in Bhandara district. The judicial system requires a death sentence awarded to any convict by a lower court to be ratified under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) by a High Court. Ad Hoc District and Sessions Judge S S Dass, on September 25, found eight of the 11 accused guilty of killing Surekha Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, her daughter Priyanka and sons Sudhir and Roshan on Sept 29, 2006. Sakru Binjewar, Shatrughan Dhande, Vishwanath Dhande, Ramu Dhande, Jagdish Mandlekar and Prabhakar Mandlekar were given the death sentence while Gopal Binjewar and Shishupal Dhande have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
