Graham Staines murder case: Convict's remission plea rejected, Odisha tells SC

Parmod Kumar New Delhi, Sep 17 (UNI) The Odisha government on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it had rejected the plea of Rabindra Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh for remission of sentence and premature release from prison in the 1999 murder case of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons. A bench comprising Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi was told that the State had passed the rejection order on August 31, 2026. "We have passed an order. We have rejected it," the State's counsel told the bench. Taking note of the development, the court granted…