The special court in Jagdalpur had convicted the 10 accused, including two women. (Representative Image) A special NIA court in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Wednesday sentenced all 10 convicts in the 2013 Jhiram Valley Maoist attack case to death. The attack had claimed the lives of 29 people, including several senior Congress leaders. The special court in Jagdalpur had convicted the 10 accused, including two women, on September 5 and reserved its order on the quantum of punishment for September 16, an NIA counsel said. "The court has awarded the death penalty to all 10 convicts," he said. On May 25, 2013, Maoists ambushed the Congress' 'Parivartan Rally' ahead of the state Assembly elections on the national highway in Jhiram Valley. Following the attack, 29 people, including Congress leaders, civilians and security personnel, were killed and more than 30 people were injured. Those killed included then state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh, former Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Mahendra Karma, former Union minister Vidya Charan Shukla, and senior Congress leader and former MLA Uday Mudliyar. The then BJP-led state government handed over the probe to the NIA within two days of the attack. Following this, the state government also constituted a judicial commission headed by then Chhattisgarh High Court judge Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra to probe the incident. Mahima Joshi works as a Chief Copy Editor at Times Now and is part of the India and Breaking Desk. Covering national stories and bringing breaking new... View More