Patna,(BiharTimes): The life term given to former MP, Vijay Krishna, his son, Chanakya Singh alias Guddu, and two of his close associates Umesh and Gagan in Satyendra Kumar Singh murder case is a classic case of intra-Janata Dal (United) quarrel, which had a gory end. The District Additional and Sessions Judge X, Patna, Nand Kumar Shrivastava, convicted him on Monday and only announced the quantum of punishment on Wednesday (December 4).
The court convicted them under different Sections of IPC and 27 Arms Act for the murder of a contractor and JD (U) leader, Satyendra Kumar Singh, on May 23, 2009.

The court also imposed a penalty of Rs 30,000 on ex-MP and Rs 35,000 on his son Chanakya Singh. Their servant Gagan and bodyguard Umesh Singh were awarded a penalty of Rs 6,000 each. They all were present in the court when the verdict was announced.

Satyendra Singh was not only killed but his body was thrown in the Ganga river locked in an iron box. It was fished out by the police several days later.

Vijay Krishna was an influential leader of Janata Dal (United) when he got killed fellow party leader, Satyendra Singh. The latter incidentally was a very close family friend too and reported differences over the MPLAD fund led to his killing in the heat of the moment. It is said that actually it was the son, who fired on him in the presence of Vijay Krishna.
Though Vijay Krishna was in the Lalu cabinet earlier he actually emerged as a giant killer in 2004 when he defeated the then railway minister, Nitish Kumar, in the Lok Sabha election from Barh parliamentary seat. Nitish was always uncomfortable from Barh so he contested from Nalanda parliamentary seat too.
However, he quit the RJD on April 3, 2009 and joined JD(U) just on the eve of Lok Sabha election. Chief minister Nitish Kumar himself greeted him into the party as he wanted a powerful Rajput leader of the Patna district to broadbase his influence. But the truth is that Vijay Krishna quit the RJD, because Barh no more remained a parliamentary seat after the delimitation and the party failed to give him ticket for the Lok Sabha election of 2009.
After the murder of Satyendra as the ruling party leader he did try to influence the investigation and evade arrest. This prompted Satyendra’s widow, Laxmi Singh and daughter Sweety Singh to publicly accuse Vijay of misusing his position. They even met chief minister to press for his arrest.
But since the person killed was also a fellow Janata Dal (United) leader he and his son were arrested several months later.
Vijay Krishna re-joined Rashtriya Janata Dal on October 8, 2010, that is on the eve of Assembly election. Perhaps he did so as he failed to get Assembly ticket of JD(U). Ironically, he came back to his old party when very few were joining it.
According to public prosecutor (PP) J P Singh the former MP on May 23, 2009, called up Satyendra Kumar Singh with the mobile-phone of his associate Radhe Prasad, requesting him to visit 83, MLA Club, in the state capital. Satyendra went missing after that meeting. Later the family members lodged an FIR.
The police made a break-through in the case on May 31, 2009, when they arrested Vijay Krishna’s servant Gagan from D-2, Jhula Niketan Apartment in the state capital and bodyguard Umesh Singh. The two, during their interrogation, revealed that Satyendra was shot at the aforesaid flat. The accused threw Satyendra’s SIM near the high court, which was found by a class four employee of the court.
Acting on the information given by Gagan and Umesh, Patna Police were able to recover the body of Satyendra from Dulli Ghat near Mahatma Gandhi Setu in the state capital on June 11, 2009.
A DNA test confirmed it, as the sample matched with the DNA sample of his daughter, Asha Singh, he added.
Vijay Krishna went underground to evade arrest but was later arrested from Faridabad in Haryana on August 20, 2009, while his son Chanakya was arrested in Patna, much later, that is on January 25, 2010. Charges were framed by the court against the accused on February 28, 2011.