07 June 2005 :
Malaya Maroti Bajantra, an Indian man convicted of murdering his compatriot, was beheaded in the Hafar al-Batin town in Saudi Arabia. Bajantra killed Hakim Ahmed Pasha and robbed him, said a report by the country's Interior Ministry.Bajantra was the second Indian to be beheaded in Saudi Arabia in 2005. A man from Kerala was beheaded in January on charges rejected by the Indian embassy in Riyadh. The names of the expats on trial are first translated to Arabic from their passport and then translated back to English when such statements are issued. This, at times, results in total distortion of names making it difficult to identify the person.
(Sources: PTI, 06/03/2005)
