Patna High Court admitted for hearing petitions of former MP Anand Mohan challenging the trial court order awarding them death sentence.
PATNA: Patna High Court on Wednesday admitted for hearing petitions of former MP Anand Mohan and former MLAS Akhlaq Ahmed and Arun Kumar challenging the trial court order awarding them death sentence in connection with the lynching of Gopalganj district magistrate G Krishnaiah 13 years ago.
A division bench of the court comprising Justices Ghanshyam Prasad and Shyam Kishore Sharma while admitting the petitions for hearing called for the records pertaining to the case from the trial court.
After the records reach the high court the date for listing the petitions would be fixed.
Patna additional district and sessions judge R S Rai had on October 3, 2007 sentenced Mohan, Ahmed and Kumar to death and awarded life imprisonment to Mohan's wife Lovely Anand, a former Lok Sabha MP from Vaishali, JD(U) MLA from Lalganj Munna Shukla, Shashi Shekhar and Harendra Kumar.
Krishnaiah, the then district magistrate of Gopalganj, was beaten up and then shot by a mob accompanying the cortege of a Bihar People's Party (BPP), which is now virtually defunct, leader Chotan Shukla on December 5, 1994.
Anand Mohan, former MP from Sheohar and who was then the BPP chief, Lovely Anand, Munna Shukla, younger brother of Chotan Shukla, Akhlaq Ahmed, Shashi Shekhar, Arun Kumar and Harendra Kumar were accused of having incited the mob to kill Krishnaiah.
The judge had acquitted 29 of the 36 accused in the case for want of evidence.
While all those awarded life imprisonment are out on bail pending disposal of their petitions contesting the sentence, Mohan, Ahmed and Kumar are lodged in Bhagalpur central jail.
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