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Fire-bomb attack trio are jailed 
WSN Network 

LONDON: Three men have been jailed for fire-bombing a house and a temple after being angered by the marriage of a Sikh woman to a Hindu man.

Sikhs Sandip Rooprai, 21, Mukham Dogra, 18, and his brother Jasdev Dogra, 19, acted out "a misguided sense of honour", Winchester Crown Court heard.

All three men, from Swindon, Wiltshire, had originally pleaded guilty to arson.

A jury found them guilty on two counts of arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered. Rooprai became incensed when his sister married a Hindu man, and he persuaded the Dogra brothers to help take revenge. A judge at Southampton Crown Court sentenced Rooprai, of Penhill Drive, Swindon, to nine years in jail. Mukham Dogra was jailed for seven years and four months and Jasdev Dogra, who lived with him, was jailed for five years and eight months. he attackers targeted a Bristol temple and the Swindon home of a wedding witness in early 2008.

8 July  2009
 

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