A court has convicted all ten accused in the 2013 Jhiram Valley Maoist attack in which 29 people, including two Cong leaders, were killed.

The incident took place on May 25, 2013, when Maoists ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders on a national highway in Jhiram Valley in Bastar.

The incident took place on May 25, 2013, when Maoists ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders on a national highway in Jhiram Valley in Bastar.

Among those killed were then state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel, former Leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma and former Union minister Vidya Charan Shukla. Different reports have cited death tolls ranging from 29 to 32, depending on victims who later succumbed to their injuries.