India
A district court sentenced a former minister in the previous Rabri Devi government and three others to life imprisonment for killing a village head in 2006.
Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
NAWADA (Bihar): A district court on Wednesday sentenced a former minister in the previous Rabri Devi government and three others to life imprisonment for killing a village head in 2006.
Additional district and sessions judge of fast track court, V S Pathak had on Tuesday convicted the former minister and Congress leader Aditya Singh and his three associates Narsingh Singh, Mukesh Singh and Tarun Singh, under Section 302 of IPC and the arms act.
They were convicted for killing Lalan Singh, head of Sakarpura village, in Nawada district on January 6, 2006.
Aditya Singh was a minister of state for animal husbandry in the Rabri Devi government.