India, Sept. 17 -- A special NIA court in Jagdalpur on Wednesday, September 16, awarded the death penalty to all 10 convicts in the 2013 Jheeram Ghati Maoist attack case, one of the deadliest assaults on political leaders in India's history. The court had already found the accused guilty on September 5 and had reserved its order on the quantum of punishment.

The case relates to the May 25, 2013, attack by armed cadres of the banned CPI (Maoist) on the convoy of the Congress party's "Parivartan Yatra" in Jheeram Ghati, Darbha, in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district. According to an NIA press release, the Maoists carried out an IED blast, indiscriminate firing and grenade detonation, killing 24 people on the spot, including civilians and police...