NEW DELHI: In an enormous setback to former MP and senior Bihar politician Prabhunath Singh, the Supreme Courtroom on Friday sentenced him to life imprisonment in reference to the 1995 double homicide case. The SC ruling got here every week after the highest courtroom convicted the Bihar politician within the case, overturning the orders of the trial courtroom and the Patna Excessive Courtroom acquitting him.
Supreme Courtroom sentenced life imprisonment to Bihar politician Prabhunath Singh in a matter pertaining to 1995 double homicide case pic.twitter.com/1WmHpKB6nb
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The apex courtroom additional directed the state authorities and the accused to award Rs 10 lakh every as compensation for the households of each the deceased and 5 lakhs for the injured. The highest courtroom additionally imposed a sentence of seven years imprisonment on Prabhunath Singh for the offence of try and homicide underneath Part 307 IPC.
A bench of Justices S Okay Kaul, AS Oka and Vikram Nath had earlier held Singh responsible of culpable murder amounting to homicide for killing Daroga Rai and Rajendra Rai in March 1995 in Chhapra village of Bihar.
The bench additionally directed the state House Secretary and DGP “to make sure that Singh is ”taken into custody forthwith and produced earlier than” it on September 1 when it’ll hear the matter on the quantum of sentence to be imposed.
The Further Classes Choose, Quick Monitor Courtroom-III, Patna had by order dated October 24, 2008, acquitted Singh. This was upheld by the Patna Excessive Courtroom on December 2, 2021. Singh had allegedly opened hearth on the victims on studying that that they had voted for the Janata Dal. The previous MP was then contesting as a candidate of the Bihar Individuals’s Celebration.
Prabhunath Singh is presently serving a life time period in one other homicide case. He, alongside along with his two brothers, was 2sentenced to life in jail in 2017 after a two-decade trial within the homicide of former Janata Dal lawmaker Ashok Singh in 1995. Ashok Singh’s spouse had requested for the trial to be held on a impartial floor in Jharkhand, as an alternative of Bihar.
Ashok Singh had defeated Prabhunath Singh within the Bihar meeting polls in 1995. He was killed in a blast at his official house in Patna quickly after. Prabhunath Singh had allegedly stated that Ashok Singh can be eradicated inside 90 days of the election.
