The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the bail petition of former Bihar MP Anand Mohan, sentenced to life imprisonment for lynching of district collector G. Krishnaiya from Andhra Pradesh in 1994.
Mohan was initially awarded death by a trial court in a judgment in October 2007, but the Patna high court converted it into life sentence. The conversion of death sentence was the major factor which an apex court bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandri and A.R. Dave, took into consideration while taking up his bail petition.
He sought the bail while his appeal is pending before the apex court, which would come up for hearing in August.
The bench told Mohan’s counsel K.T.S. Tulsi that the kind of charges the convict faced and considering the fact that he was awarded capital punishment by the trial court, it was difficult for the apex court to consider his bail application at this stage.
The trial court had also convicted Mohan’s wife Lovely Anand along with her husband and five others local politicians and goons but she was acquitted by the HC. The officer was killed in Gopalganj when he was trying to control a unruly mob. Mohan was found guilty of instigating a mob to “lynch” Krishnaiha, an upright district magistrate, who had made life difficult for the politicians having nexus with criminals.