Bathani Tola: A massacre, a conviction, an acquittal and a 30-year wait for justice that still haunts Bihar’s bloodiest caste crime

Thirty years after the Bathani Tola massacre, survivors of the Ranvir Sena attack, which claimed 21 lives including children and women, still await justice. Despite a lower court conviction, the Patna High Court acquitted all accused in 2012. The case now languishes in the Supreme Court, leaving victims in a prolonged state of uncertainty and despair.

Bathani Tola: A massacre, a conviction, an acquittal and a 30-year wait for justice that still haunts Bihar’s bloodiest caste crime
Thirty years after the Bathani Tola massacre, survivors of the Ranvir Sena attack, which claimed 21 lives including children and women, still await justice. Despite a lower court conviction, the Patna High Court acquitted all accused in 2012. The case now languishes in the Supreme Court, leaving victims in a prolonged state of uncertainty and despair.