Maharashtra government today said it will move the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court's verdict in the Khairlanji Dalit killings case.

The government would move the apex court against the HC ruling commuting the death sentence of six convicts to 25 years imprisonment and fixing a similar sentence for two others serving life term, Minister for Health Suresh Shetty informed the Legislative Council.

"We are waiting for the copy of the HC order and would move the apex court after that," he said.

Ram Pandagale (NCP) raised the issue of the Dalit killings that took place nearly four years ago and criticised the HC ruling.

Justice Lavande of Nagpur bench of the court today held that all the eight accused will undergo 25 years of life imprisonment including the period they have already spent in jail.

The case pertains to the brutal murder of four members of a Dalit family -- Surekha Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, her daughter Priyanka, sons Sudhir and Roshan -- by an angry mob in Khairlanji village on September 29, 2006.

The trial court had awarded death sentence to six convicts and life term to two others.