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	The Hindu : Death for Dara Singh
		A Designated CBI court today awarded the death penalty to Dara Singh and life imprisonment to 12 others for their involvement in the killing of the Australian missionary, Graham Stuart Staines, and his two minor sons in Orissa's Keonjhar district in the night of January 22, 1999.
		The death sentence awarded to Dara Singh was subject to confirmation by the High Court under Section 366 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC), the Judge said, while ordering that the case file be sent to the High Court.
		Dara Singh, who appeared to be in a remorseful mood, was, however, seen consoling the fellow convicts.
	www.hindu.com /2003/09/23/stories/2003092305640100.htm (646 words)

	Dara Singh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dara Singh is a legendary wrestler and film actor from India.
		He is a former multi-timer World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.Dara Singh has competed against some of the greatest names in wrestling history including the great Stanislaus Zbyszko whom he defeated.
		Dara Singh is known for knocking out various Professional Wrestlers in the United States before he was explained the meaning of the term "worked" in Professional Wrestling.Upon realizing that the Professional Wrestling in the United State was worked he returned back home.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dara_Singh (166 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dara Singh — and 12 others now sentenced to life imprisonment — had deliberately set fire, in 1999, to the vehicle in which the Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two children were sleeping.
		Dara Singh is also accused of murdering a Catholic priest and a Muslim trader.
		Apart from the murders, Dara Singh’s other credentials rested on his freeing cows that were being taken for slaughter, and robbing or beating up their transporters, usually from the minority community.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030924/asp/opinion/story_2394515.asp (491 words)

	The Hindu : Dara Singh, 12 others convicted
		Dara Singh, prime accused in the burning of the Australian missionary Graham Stewart Staines and his two sons, at the District and Sessions Judge court at Bhubaneswar on Monday.
		A Designated Central Bureau of Investigation court today convicted the prime accused Dara Singh and 12 others for their involvement in the killing of the Australian missionary, Graham Stuart Staines, and his two minor sons in January 1999 in a tribal village in Orissa.
		The CBI had chargesheeted Dara Singh and 17 others submitting that there was enough evidence on record to show the involvement of the accused.
	www.hindu.com /2003/09/16/stories/2003091604330100.htm (694 words)

	Documents Produced before the Commission by The State Government Pertaining to Dara Singh and his Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dara Singh appears to be a supporter or fellow traveller of the Bajrang Dal or even of the BJP but not a die hard or card holder or activist of these organizations.
		Dara Singh a member of the Go — Suraksha samithi but I don’t know whether he was a member of the BJP when Patna PS case 80/97 was registered.
		The above evidence indicates that Dara Singh was perceived as being associated with the Bajrang Dal and the BJP in Sadar Circle of Keonjhar District and Karanjia Circle of Mayurbhanj District, at least for the purposes of intelligence and police records.
	www.hvk.org /specialrepo/wadhwa/Documents.html (1849 words)

	HC awards Dara Singh life, not death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dara Singh, sentenced to death in the sensational Graham Staines triple murder case, today got a reprieve as the Orissa High Court set aside the verdict of the trial court and commuted the order to life imprisonment.
		Dara, now lodged in the circle jail at Baripada as he is facing three other murder charges in different cases, was not present in the court.
		Dara, who was described by the CBI as the main accused in the case, was arrested a year after the incident.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2005/may/109703.htm (870 words)

	Asia Times -
		Dara's killing of Staines and his sons was the horrific culmination of this brand of politics.
		Dara's "martyrdom" could be used to focus attention on the larger issue of the Christian missionary presence in Orissa and the reported conversion of tribals to Christianity.
		Whether or not Dara is eventually hanged to death - in the event of an appeal, a higher court or the president of India could stay the sentence - the forces of fanaticism that have been unleashed are worrying.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EI30Df04.html (1423 words)

	Dara Singh sentenced to death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dara Singh, who was tried separately, was handed the death sentence under section 302.
		All the 13 convicts, including Dara, were present in the court when their counsels pleaded for lesser punishment considering their poor economic background, family problems and the condition of their old and ailing parents.
		Mohanty said Dara Singh's 85-year-old father was bed-ridden and undergoing treatment at a hospital in Noida near Delhi while his only brother is a psychiatric patient.
	in.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/22staines.htm (760 words)

	outlookindia.com
		Bhubaneswar, Sep 23 (PTI) The judge while sentencing Dara Singh, the main perpetrator behind the brutal killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons, to the gallows, has observed that the Manoharpur massacre spoke loudly that humanity is not yet fully civilised.
		Dara Singh, like knight errant of crime, had formed a militant group of local tribals to physically liquidate Staines in the belief that with the Australian missionary the spread of Christianity would be burried in the area.
		Dara was given capital punishment under section 302 of IPC for which he was separately charged.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=169351 (831 words)

	Staines case: Dara Singh, 12 others found guilty
		Dara Singh alias Rabindra Pal Singh is the son of Mihilal Pal of Kokara village, district Itawah in Uttar Pradesh. He was born on October 2, 1962.
		Dara Singh has a first-class degree in arts and is also well-versed in Hindi.
		Singh was charged with involvement in over a dozen criminal cases, including the burning and looting of trucks carrying cattle and attacks on a Muslim businessman and a Roman Catholic priest after the Staines murder.
	ushome.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/15oris1.htm (616 words)

	DAGA Dossier - India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dara Singh, an individual motivated by ‘msiplaced fundamentalism," was actively pursuing an anti-Christian crusade in the Manoharpur area.
		The Commission’s own Investigating Team found that Dara Singh was a Bajrang Dal activist, had attended RSS rallies, and had campaigned for the BJP in Patna during the 1998 parliamentary elections.
		The Commission’s own investigating team concluded that Dara Singh was an activist and supporter of Bajrang Dal, although it could not find any documentary evidence that he was an official member of the group.
	daga.dhs.org /daga/dd/d1299in/india19.html (1364 words)

	aicc Charter
		Dara Singh and the 12 others were present in the court.
		On Dara Singh, lawyer Bana Mohanty said he is a social worker and is very popular in Thakurmunda and Karanjia blocks in Mayurbhanj district.
		Further, Dara Singh's 85-year old father is paralytic and is now undergoing treatment at the Noida government hospital in Delhi, while his brother is a psychiatric patient.
	www.aiccindia.org /ans67.html (345 words)

	rediff.com: Dara Singh's condition 'serious'
		The condition of Dara Singh, prime accused in the killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his sons in January 2000, is reported serious.
		Singh has been lodged at Baripada since January last year, when he was arrested by the Orissa police in connection with the Staines murder case.
		Dara had claimed that his mental and physical agony had increased due to the heat wave conditions.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/jun/08dara.htm (223 words)

	Dara Singh moves SC: Staines murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Delhi: Dara Singh, who was sentenced to life for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons, today challenged his conviction in the Supreme Court.
		Dara, whose death penalty was commuted into life imprisonment by the Orissa High Court, contended that his conviction was merely upheld on the basis of presumption of his presence at the site of incident as the mob was shouting slogans in his name.
		"The conviction of Dara is solely on the basis of mere presumption, which is contrary to the principles of criminal justice and devoid of law," the petition filed by his counsel Sibo Sankar Mishra said.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2005/august/116398.htm (289 words)

	Dara Singh to appeal in apex court : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Relieved that the spectre of the noose no longer haunted him, Dara Singh now wants to move the Supreme Court seeking his acquittal in the Graham Staines triple murder case.
		Dara said he was not linked to any political outfit and intended to involve himself in social service.
		The lower court's death verdict against Dara was set aside by the Orissa High Court on Thursday though his sentence to life imprisonment by the trial court remained untouched.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1370798,000900030010.htm (309 words)

	Save Hinduism to save the cows
		Dara Singh is an activist who sincerely and conscientiously has tried to stop the cruel transport of the cattle.
		The seemingly drastic actions of Dara have been necessitated due to the fact that existing laws pertaining to cruelty of animals are never strictly enforced.
		Dara Singh falls into this category and an unfortunate victim of politics.
	www.geocities.com /free_dara_singh/savehinduism.htm (667 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		June 11: Dara Singh, the prime accused in the Graham Staines murder case, could not be produced before the trial court in Bhubaneswar on Monday, following his indefinite fast inside the circle jail.
		Dara Singh has been on a fast since June five demanding a ceiling fan in his cell at the circle jail here.
		Dara Singh, who was chargesheeted along with 13 others in the murder of Australian missionary Graham Stewart Staines and his two minor sons, skipped his liquid diet last night.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Jun01/12/MUM2.html (336 words)

	Human Rights for Dara Singh
		The news of Dara Singh’s conviction and sentencing to death has caused little reaction in the Indian and western media.
		Dara Singh was convicted on the evidence of 4 out of 96 witnesses to the crime.
		With this incredibly shaky evidence, there is still placid acceptance of Dara Singh’s guilt, a guilt that was pretty much established before he even came to trial.
	www.hinduhumanrights.org /articles/darasingh.htm (624 words)

	outlookindia.com \| wired
		Dara Singh, the prime accused in the sensational murder of Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two minor sons, today denied that he had mastermined or executed the killings.
		Singh told the court of the District and Sessions Judge, Khurda, M N Patnaik, here that he had neither conspired with anybody to cause the incident nor led the mob which set fire to the station wagon in which staines and his children were asleep on the night of January 22, 1999.
		The accused was asked a number of questions like whether Dara had held an axe and a torch at the time of the incident, whether both the vehicles parked outside the church were set ablaze at the same time, and others and each time Das feigned ignorance.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=130079 (693 words)

	Dara Singh
		Dara Singh was a well-known wrestler before he joined Hindi films.
		Dara Singh did many character roles also and the one role he is highly remembered for was from Manmohan Desai directed 'Mard'.
		Though Singh got respectability as an actor with special appearances in RK Films' 'Dharam Karam' and 'Mera Naam Joker', it was Manmohan Desai who paid him an unusual compliment when he signed Dara Singh for 'Mard'.
	www.punjabilok.com /misc/movies/dara_singh.htm (350 words)

	Scathing Criticism of Jats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Film star Dara Singh, the President of all India Jat Mahan Sabha announced in Amritsar that Jats should be declared as backward group and 6% of the government jobs should be reserved for them, reported the Tribune of Feb. 26, 2004.
		Dara Singh also announced that he is going to campaign for the BJP in the coming elections.
		Although I resent Dara Singh's advocacy to have Jats designated as a backward class, but I don't think your criticism of Jats is going to win you accolades or any friends except maybe Harjot Singh Oberoi of 'Construction of Boundaries' fame or infamy.
	www.sikhsundesh.net /jats.html (2530 words)

	Murder witness identifies Dara Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A prosecution witness in the murder case of Sheikh Rahaman has claimed before a local court that he had seen Dara Singh stabbing a trader to death with a dagger at Padiabeda weekly market on 26 August 1999.
		Deposing before the district and sessions court here on 14 September 14, Abdul Ghani said he had seen Dara Singh, sentenced to death on charges of murdering Australian missionary Graham Staines, killing Rahaman with a dagger at the weekly market.
		Dara Singh and 38 others, allegedly involved in the criminal case, were present in the court while the prosecution witness deposed.
	www.aiccindia.org /news/murder_witness_identifies_dara_singh.htm (127 words)

	Should Dara Sigh be executed?, A view on Capital Punishment, 1stholistic.com, Holistic Living
		Such was the case in India recently when a ruthless criminal Dara Singh was convicted and sentenced to die for killing an Australian missionary and his two sons in North India.
		Gladys Stanes said that she had forgiven Dara Singh and did not file any suit against him, but the court judgment should be honored in any democracy, and she wouldn't interfere in it.
		Hence though Dara Singh was the worst criminal who misunderstood Hinduism like Bin Laden who misunderstood the real teachings of Islam and destroyed the double trade centers of New York due to his religious fundamentalism.
	1stholistic.com /reading/prose/liv_should-Dara-Singh-be-executed.htm (884 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Dara Singh let 'loose a reign of terror' to usher in 'Ram rajya'
		This Dara Singh is the prime accused in the burning of an Australian missionary, Dr Graham Stewart Stains, and his two children.
		Singh's real name is Rabindra Pal and he hails from Kukur village in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh.
		Ever since, people have been living in fear as Dara Singh and his gang have openly threatened to eliminate them and proclaim "Ram rajya" in the area.
	in.rediff.com /news/1999/jan/27chris2.htm (382 words)

	archive: Staines' killer Dara Singh arrested
		Since Dara was quite popular in the tribal-dominated area, the police took him to an unknown destination (apprehending violence) after the arrest.
		Dara alias Rabindra Pal Singh was the main accused in the bizarre and gruesome killings.
		The DGP said Dara could not be arrested earlier largely because of the support he enjoyed among the locals in the area.
	www.media-watch.org /articles/0200/3.html (636 words)

	Re: PRAY FOR THE WORLD! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dara's supporters reportedly planned to hold a protest rally in the capital.
		He and his two young sons were burned to death by assailants, led by Dara Singh, who attacked the Staines late at night while they slept in the family station wagon parked outside a church at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district.
		Singh himself was arrested in a forest in the Keonjhar district on January 31, 2000.
	www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/aus.religion/messages/65543.html (935 words)

	The World Today - Singh sentenced to death for Staines family murder
		RICHARD HOWELL: Dara Singh, we believe, was the product of a hate campaign, which is initiated by those who uphold the ideology of hatred.
		It said in its report that the man accused, Dara Singh, was acting on his own, that he did not belong to any political party.
		Dara Singh, I believe, is a victim of those parties that have promoted hatred.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s951986.htm (929 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Missionary murder convict appeals
		Dara Singh's sentence had previously been commuted from the death penalty to life in jail.
		Dara Singh's petition, filed by his lawyer Sibo Sankar Mishra to the Supreme Court, says: "The conviction of Dara is solely on the basis of mere presumption, which is contrary to the principles of criminal justice and devoid of law."
		The High Court in the eastern state of Orissa commuted Singh's sentence in May saying there was no evidence to suggest it was the individual act of Dara Singh that was responsible for the death of Mr Staines and his sons.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4157018.stm (367 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The SAD President Parkash Singh Badal has described the decision of the Punjab Government to suspend Mr Dara Singh as a member of the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission (SGJC) as a brazen and pre-meditated conspiracy for governmental interference in the smooth conduct of the SGPC annual poll scheduled for November 12.
		Meanwhile, Mr Dara Singh, who was produced in the court of SDM, Mr Gurwaryam Singh, after the registration of a case was released on bail against a surety of Rs 10,000.
		It was revealed that Mr Virsa Singh and Mr Surat Singh had come to Mr Dara Singh in the afternoon to seek favour for an SGPC member whose case was to come up for hearing before the commission shortly.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20021031/main2.htm (1589 words)

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