The incident took place in 1993 in Purulia, West Bengal.
As per the prosecution, the two convicts were part of a group of five persons who had gheraoed and assaulted the deceased woman by hitting her on the head, causing her death on the spot.
Witnesses had testified that the five men had called her a diayen (witch) who was troubling villagers.
Both the trial court and the High Court convicted the accused for the woman’s murder, leading to appeals before the Supreme Court.
Appeals filed by three of the five convicts were earlier dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2011.
The appeals filed by the remaining two convicts have now been dismissed as well by the top court.
Source: Barandbench
