Jagdalpur, Sept. 16 -- The NIA Special Court in Jagdalpur on Wednesday awarded death penalty to all 10 convicts in the Jhiram Ghati Naxal attack case. The court had found them guilty on September 5 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Arms Act, Explosive Substances Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and reserved its order on the quantum of punishment.

The case relates to the planned attack by armed cadres of the proscribed organisation CPI (Maoist) on the convoy of Congress party's "Parivartan Yatra" in Jheeram Ghati, Darbha, in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, on May 25, 2013.

A NIA press release said that the Naxals had resorted to an IED blast, indiscriminate firing and grenade detonation, resulting in the...