1999年1月22日，澳大利亚基督教传教士格雷厄姆·斯坦尼斯及其6岁和10岁的两个儿子在印度遭印度教极端分子达拉·辛格纵火焚杀1。辛格真名为拉宾德拉·库马尔·帕尔，2000年被捕后因该案被判处无期徒刑1。2024年7月，辛格向印度最高法院提出减刑申请，声称自己已服刑超过25年1，印度最高法院将就此做出裁决1。
辛格因此案受到的法律制裁曾多次变更1。2003年法院对其判处死刑，2005年高等法院将判决改为无期徒刑，2011年印度最高法院维持了无期徒刑判决1。此外，辛格还因另外两起涉及宗教少数群体的谋杀案分别被判无期徒刑——2009年因杀害天主教神父阿鲁尔·达斯，以及因杀害穆斯林商人沙伊赫·拉曼1。
这一减刑申请在印度基督教少数民族社区中引发担忧1。斯坦尼斯的遗孀格拉迪斯已经表示原谅了达拉·辛格1。然而，在2000年的采访中，辛格曾声称对杀害斯坦尼斯的孩子"没有遗憾"也"永远不会后悔"1。
A man serving a life sentence for murdering an Australian Christian missionary and his two young sons has petitioned India's Supreme Court for a reduction in his sentence.1 On January 22, 1999, Graham Staines and his sons, aged 6 and 10, were killed in a firebombing carried out by Dara Singh, whose legal name is Rabindra Kumar Pal.1 Singh was arrested in 2000 and has remained incarcerated since then.1
The case has passed through multiple judicial reviews over the years.1 A trial court sentenced Singh to death in 2003, but a high court commuted this to life imprisonment in 2005, a decision upheld by India's Supreme Court in 2011.1 Singh has also been convicted of two additional murders motivated by religious hostility: the 2009 killing of Catholic priest Arul Das and the murder of Muslim businessman Sheikh Rahman, for which he received separate life sentences.1
Singh filed his petition for sentence reduction in July 2024, claiming he has already served more than 25 years in prison.1 The Supreme Court will now decide on the application, a prospect that has alarmed India's Christian minority community.1 Staines's widow, Gladys, has stated that she has forgiven Singh.1 However, in a 2000 interview, Singh stated he had "no regrets" and would "never regret" killing Staines's children.1
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