India stays executions of 'bandit king' accomplice

India's Supreme Court yesterday extended a stay on the hanging of four death-row convicts by six months after rights groups voiced growing concern over recent executions in the
country.
The lawyer for the four accomplices of slain "bandit king" Veerappan who were sentenced to death in 2004 for a deadly blast in southern India had approached the Supreme Court because he believed their executions were
imminent.