Overview

• On August 23, 2005, six men attacked Dharampal Singh with sticks and shot him after he and his brother refused to vote for their preferred panchayat candidate in Uttar Pradesh’s Ladam Mankeda village.
• Police arrested the suspects on September 15, 2005, and recovered a country-made .315 bore gun with two live bullets from a field based on Bablu Singh’s disclosure.
• One of the original seven accused, Sattoo Singh, died during the trial in 2006, leaving six men—Jitendra, Bablu, Pawan, Girraj, Govind and Balvir Singh—to stand trial.
• Additional District and Sessions Judge Rajendra Prasad delivered rigorous life sentences on June 10, 2025, concluding a trial that spanned nearly two decades.
• Each convict received a Rs28,500 fine, and failure to pay will result in an additional three years behind bars.