Despite facing life imprisonment for leading a mob in the 1994 lynching of district magistrate G. Krishnaiah, Anand Mohan walked out of jail on April 24 last year under the Bihar government’s remission policy, which has been challenged by the slain IAS officer’s wife
The Bihar government’s affidavit before the Supreme Court has been filed in response to a plea filed by Uma Krishnaiah, the widow of District Magistrate G Krishnaiah, who was killed after an attack by a mob led by Mohan.
The Supreme Court today asked the Bihar government to release the records on the early release of gangster-politician Anand Mohan, who was in jail for abetting the murder of an IAS officer.
Gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh was released from a jail in Bihar’s Saharsa on April 27. He was convicted for the murder of the then Gopalganj district magistrate G Krishnaiah in 1994
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice a plea by the widow of IAS officer G. Krishnaiah, who was lynched in 1994 by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh, challenging the latter's premature release from prison.