Ex-MP gets life for Krishnaiah killing

Jul 11, 2012 |

New Delhi / Hyderabad

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the life sentence awarded to former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh for the lynching of Gopalganj district magistrate G. Krishnaiah, who hailed from Andhra Pradesh, 18 years ago. Mohan, an MLA of the Bihar People’s Party, his own outfit in 1994, had instigated a mob of nearly 5,000 people to attack Krishnaiah and other government officials. The mob had gathered to protest the mu-rder of a BPP worker in a gang war during the regime of Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Krishnaiah, a dalit officer, hailed from Undavelli in Alampur mandal of Mahbubnagar district. He did his MA in English literature at Osmania University. Krishnaiah’s wife Uma, who lives in Prasashan Nagar in Hyderabad along with two daughters Niharika and Padma, could not be reached for comment. She worked as a lecturer in the Government Degree College for Women in Begumpet. The trial judge had awarded the death sentence to Anand and two others, former MLA Arun Kumar and former minister Akhlak Ahamad and life sentences to his wife Lovely Anand, a former MP, and three co-accused JD(U) MLA Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla, Harendra Kumar and Shashi Shekhar.

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