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- A special NIA court in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district has sentenced all 10 convicts to death for the 2013 Jhiram Ghati Naxal attack.
- Judge Ajay Singh Rajput convicted the 10, including two women, on September 5 and announced the sentence on Wednesday.
- Eleven people were arrested for the attack, and one of them died during the trial; statements of 101 witnesses were recorded.
- The May 25, 2013 attack on a Congress convoy killed 29 people, including state Congress chief Nandkumar Patel and former minister Vidya Charan Shukla.
- The verdict closes a 12-year trial that saw Chhattisgarh's Congress unit lose most of its leadership, though the defence has said it will challenge the sentence in the High Court.
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- The defence lawyers plan to challenge the death sentences in the High Court.
- Possible confirmation of the death sentences by the Chhattisgarh High Court and appeals in higher courts.
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