24/06/2015

Patna HC grants bail to BJP MLA, two former MPs

 


Patna,(BiharTimes): The single bench of Justice Gopal Prasad of the Patna High Court on Tuesday granted bail to 14 persons, including two former MPs and a sitting BJP MLA, in a case related to an attack on Sitamarhi Collectorate and subsequent police firing in which five persons were killed in 1998.
On June 4 last, the fast track court of Sitamarhi sentenced to 10 years imprisonment to all the 14.

Those sentenced by lower court were BJP MLA from Parihar Ram Naresh Yadav, former JD(U) MP from Sitamarhi Nawal Kishore Rai, former Sheohar MP and now RJD leader Anwar-ul- Haq, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) district chief Ram Lakshman Singh Kushwaha and general secretary Mohan Kumar Singh.

One of the convicts Suryadeo Rai, who was a police bodyguard of Nawal Kishore Rai, had been handed down a five-year prison term by the same fast track court on that day.


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