Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Feb 26:

The District Sessions court here today acquitted two persons accused in the brutal murder of Australian missionary Graham Stewart Staines and his two sons in January, 1999.

The court acquitted Ranjan Mohanta and Ghanashyam Mohanta for lack of evidence of their involvement in the burning to death of Staines and his two minor sons Philip and Timothy while they were asleep inside their station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district on the night of January 22.