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JAMMU: The Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh upheld the life imprisonment awarded to two convicts, Dev Raj and Balwan Singh, in sensational 2001 double murder case in JDA office that had sent shock waves across the Jammu City.

The bench, comprising Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar, dismissed the appeals filed by the convicts and sustained the order of the Sessions Judge, Jammu, which had sentenced them to life imprisonment for the murder of Pardeep Kumar alias Deepa and Kamal Raj alias Pappu.

The case dates back to April 24, 2001, when a dispute over the KMD bus stand booking counter escalated into violence inside the JDA office complex at Panama Chowk. On that day, the deceased Pardeep Kumar and Kamal Raj had gone to attend

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