Dara Singh, convicted for burning alive Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons in January 1999, has approached the Supreme Court seeking review of its judgement upholding life imprisonment to him. The petition, filed through his lawyer Shibu Shankar Mishra, sought review of January 21 verdict in which the apex court upheld the Orissa High Court verdict which had commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. Dismissing CBI's plea for death penalty to Singh, a bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan endorsed the Orissa High Court's finding that his crime did not fall under the rarest of rare category. On May 19, 2005, the Orissa High Court had commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty imposed by the sessions court on Singh for the murder of Staines and his sons. The Staines family was burnt alive in Keonjhar district in Orissa.