Patna: In the 31-year-old kidnapping case, former MP Anand Mohan was acquitted by the MP MLA court in the kidnapping case during the Lok Sabha by-election. During the 1991 Lok Sabha by-election, hearing the kidnapping case of presiding officer Gopal Yadav, MP-MLA Special Court Judge ADJ 3 Vikas Kumar Singh acquitted the former MP for lack of evidence. Anand Mohan will not be able to come out of jail for the time being. Senior advocates Shambhu Gupta, Arun Kumar Singh and Sangeeta Singh gave their arguments on behalf of the former MP.
However, Anand Mohan denied the allegation against him and called the court’s decision a victory of truth. He thanked the court for this. During this, a large number of supporters present in the court premises expressed their happiness by distributing sweets. Anand Mohan said that soon he will come out of jail free of all charges and will bring change in Bihar by joining mainstream politics.
Taking a jibe at the government regarding the release, he said that every child of Bihar knows that Anand Mohan Singh is completely innocent in the District Magistrate G Krishnaya murder case. Despite the completion of the sentence, I am in jail for more than 14 years. Even the NDA government is there. Its every small and big leader and no party is left in Bihar, whose top leaders have also said on many occasions that Anand Mohan is innocent. Despite this, after the completion of the sentence, we are imprisoned in the government of our friends. But don’t be disappointed.
Anand Mohan said that because we know that no matter how dense the darkness is, it cannot stop the sun from rising. That’s why we don’t worry about these things. He said that destiny may have decided a bigger role for us. That’s why we are not discouraged, do not despair and we still firmly believe in the judiciary for justice. If not today then tomorrow everything will be clear. Soon he will be freed from all charges and come out of jail. Will bring change in Bihar by joining mainstream politics.
Krishnaiah murder case
It was the fateful afternoon of December 5, 1994, when Gopalganj District Magistrate G. Krishnaiah was returning. A day earlier, a famous gangster from North Bihar, Chhotan Shukla was murdered in a gang war and thousands of people were protesting by jamming the NH with the dead body. Suddenly a car with a red light was seen passing from National Highway-28. In the same vehicle, IAS officer G. Krishnaiah was sitting. Seeing the red beacon car, the crowd got enraged and started pelting stones on the vehicle. The driver and bodyguard tried their best to save the DM but failed. A furious mob dragged Krishnaiah out of the vehicle and thrashed him to death near Khabra village. It was alleged that one of Shukla’s brothers had also shot a bullet in the DM’s forehead. That massacre had created a storm in the administrative and political circles at that time.
The trial court in Patna had sentenced former MP Anand Mohan to death in 2007. Along with Anand Mohan, former ministers Akhlaq Ahmed and Arun Kumar were also sentenced to death. Later the Patna High Court commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. In the same case, Anand Mohan’s wife and former MP Lovely Anand, Chhotan Shukla’s brother Munna Shukla, Shashi Shekhar and student leader Harendra Kumar were sentenced to life imprisonment, but were acquitted by the High Court in December 2008 due to lack of evidence. Anand Mohan also went to the Supreme Court against the decision, but the court upheld the High Court’s decision in 2012. The rest of the accused were acquitted, but Anand Mohan is still in jail. However, his term of sentence has come to an end.
IAS Mr. Krishnaiah was born in a Dalit family in Mahbubnagar district (now Telangana province) of Andhra Pradesh. His childhood was spent in deprivation. He was a 1985 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Bihar cadre. He was 35 years old at the time of the murder. He was then the District Magistrate in Gopalganj, which was the home district of the then Chief Minister Lalu Prasad. It was famous about Krishnaiah that he was an honest and extremely simple-minded officer of a high order
