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Staines murder trial adjourned till February

The much-awaited Graham Staines murder trial was again adjourned in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday till the first week of next month.

District and Sessions Judge Mahendranath Patnaik adjourned the trial in view of the ongoing lawyers' strike.

The trial will now begin on February 1.

Dara Singh, along with 11 of his associates charged with the killing of the Australian missionary and his two minor sons at Manoharpur in Keonjhar district in January 1999, were produced in court Tuesday afternoon amid tight security.

After the adjournment, the accused were taken to Baripada jail.

Singh, the main accused in the case, requested the court for a copy of the D P Wadhwa commission report which probed the Staines murder in 1999. The court said that law did not permit it to provide him the copy of the commission's report.

Central Bureau of Investigation counsel K Sudhakar told the court that Singh was not entitled to get a copy of the report as the Supreme Court, in another judgement, had made it clear that reports by inquiry commissions were not to be made public.

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