Ex-MP Anand Mohan gets death sentence in DM Krishnaiah murder case

Oct 03 : The Justice delivery system at last pronounced the judgement after a long wait of thirteen years.

Patna sessions court awarded death sentence to ex -MP Anand Mohan along with other three in G. Krishnaiah murder case.

Lynching happened thirteen years ago in 1994. Anand Mohan’s wife Lovely Anand gets Life sentenced for the same case.

They were alleged to have incited mob which killed the then DM of Gopalganj. JDU MLA Akhlaq Ahmad also get death sentenced by the court.

Along with Anand Mohan and his wife former Vaishali MP, Lovely Anand, JD(U) legislator Vijay Shukla alias Munna Shukla, former MLA Akhlaq Ahmad, former MP and JD(U) leader Arun Kumar and JD(U) leaders S.S. Thakur and Harendra Kumar were convicted in the case.

Ramsreshtha Rai, Additional District and Session’s Judge has earlier ruled the accused persons guilty under Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 147 (rioting).

A mob carrying the body of Chotan Shukla, a don and a leader of Bihar Peoples Party who was shot dead in a gang war. The mob led by Anand Mahan and Lovely Anand stopped the G. Krishnaiah, an IAS officer’s car on the outskirts of Mujaffarpur .He was dragged out by the infuriated mob and was thrashed badly.

Chottan’s younger brother Bhutkan Shukla shot thrice in his head while he lay on the street.

G. Krishnaiah was a native of Andhra Pradesh and was an IAS officer of Bihar Cadre.

On that unfateful day he was on the way to Gopalganj from Hajipur via Mujaffarpur after attending a meeting.

Recently the case was transferred to the session court in Patna for speedy trial on the instruction of Patna High Court.

Uma Krishnaiah said on the conviction of all seven “They deserve no less punishment than the death sentence. The court should award capital punishment to them to send a message to society.”

She said “At last, justice does not seem to be far away.”

While the sentence will be challenged in other higher court, justice still seems to be far away …

But pinning hope has become a way of life for those who believe in our justice delivery system. In fact this is for the first time that a former MP has been awarded the death penalty.