Bhotmange met Chief Minister Ashok Chavan at his official residence here and later told mediapersons that he was anguished over the delay in filing an appeal. “I will appoint a well-known lawyer and move the Supreme Court,” the only survivor in the massacre, said.
The high court reduced the death sentences imposed by a sessions court on six convicts and awarded them 25 years of life imprisonment. Bhotmange wants capital punishment to all the 11 accused in the case. Three of them were acquitted by the sessions court.
His wife Surekha, two sons Sudhir and Roshan and a daughter Priyanka were lynched by a mob at Khairlanji village in Bhandara district of Eastern Maharashtra on September 29, 2006 over a land dispute with upper caste villagers.
Published 28 July 2010, 19:36 IST