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Mahendra Fembram, one of the convicts in the case of triple murder of 1999 Highprofile of the Australian missionary Graham Staines and her two minor children, was released from Keonjhar’s prison in Odisha on Wednesday after turning 25 years.
Mahendra Manbram was released from Keonjhar’s jail in Odisha after 25 years.
Mahendra Hembram, one of the convicts in the case of triple high profile murder of 1999 of the Australian missionary Graham Staines and her two minor children, was released from Keonjhar’s jail in Odisha on Wednesday after turning 25 years.
Now, 50 years, Fembram was released from prison with a duration of good behavior his imprisonment.
“Fembram has been released after a decision of the State Judgments Review Board. The prison management reported in a letter on Tuesday. It has been released after 25 years of good behavior according to the rules.
The prison authorities gave Femabram a cordial farewell, guiding him as a recognition mark for his good conduct duration of his prison mandate.
An official said Fembram was delivered by a bank book, where his earnings in prison had deposed the leg.
“I spent 25 years in jail after the bee falsely involved in an incident relationship with religious conversion. Today, I have the liberation of the leg,” Manbram told journalists outside the jail.
Fembram and Dara Singh, also known as Rabindra Pal Singh, were convicted of the brutal murders of Staines and their children, Philip (10) and Timothy (6), which were burned alive by a mafia allegedly directed by Singh on the night of January 2199.
The victims were sleeping in a truck staked in front of a church in the Handharpur village in the Keonjhar district, when the attack took place, causing national and international outrage.
It was alleged that the spots had spread the straw on the vehicle to protect the cold from the cold, and the straw caught fire.
When they tried to escape, the mafia, armed with lathis, prevented them from leaving, which caused their deaths. His skeletal remains were recovered later.
A total of 14 people, including Singh and Fembram, were accused in the horrible case.
However, 12 or they were acquired, while Singh and Fembram were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Fembram, from the Handharpur village, was arrested in 1999, while Dara Singh was collected on January 31, 2000 by then Mayurbhanj Sp andb Khurania, who is now the DGP.
Initially maintained as a lower prisoner in the Jharpada prison in Bhubaneswar, Fembram was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 22, 2003.
Throughout the years, Fembram was imprisoned in several facilities, including Jharpada, Jamuhari Open Airesping (Bhubaneswar) and jail in Cuttack, Berhampur, Baripada, Sub-Jail Anandpur, before Beonjhar, 2011.
Duration The trial in the CBI court in Bhubaneswar on February 1, 2002, according to the reports, Fembram lost his mental composure and declared himself in the only guilty and said that others were innocent.
The trial began on March 1, 2001 at the District Court and Sessions in Khurda, which was appointed as a CBI court.
The evidence against Dara Singh was confirmed when one of the accused people, Dayanidhi Patra, told the Court of First Instance that he was present when he (Dara Singh) set fire to the vehicle.
The trial concluded on August 18, 2003, with Judge Mahendra Patnaik sentencing Dara Singh and another 12, while acquiring Anirudha Dandat, also known as Andha Nayak, for lack of evidence.
On September 22, 2003, the Court gave Dara Singh the death penalty and sentenced another 12 to life imprisonment. However, in 2005, the Superior Court of Orissa commuted the death sentence of Singh to life imprisonment, a decision later confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Dara Singh, currently fulfilling a life imprisonment, presented a request for mercy in the Supreme Court in August 2024 in search of liberation. Another supplication of mercy was also presented to the president of India.
Meanwhile, on March 19, 2025, the Supreme Court ordered the Odisha government to make a decision on the remission of a “Ravindra” of Ravindra, also known as Dara Singh, which continues to comply with the sentence for the murders of Staines and his.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED – PTI syndicated news agency)
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Odisha (Orissa), India, India
