A local court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to eight people, including a ruling JD(U) MLA and a former LJP MP, in the sensational murder case of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad on June 13, 1998. Another JD(U) MLA was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for harbouring the assailants.
Additional district and sessions judge-III Vijay Prakash Mishra awarded life term to former LJP MP Surajbhan Singh, JD(U) MLA Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla and former independent MLA Rajan Tiwari. JD(U) MLA Shashi Kumar Rai, on whose residential premises the vehicles used by the assailants were found parked, was awarded two years’ imprisonment.
Others awarded life sentence are: Mantu Tiwari, Lallan Singh, Mukesh Singh, Ram Niranjan Chaudhary and Captain Sunil. The eight have also been imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 each.
Brij Bihari, an accused in the engineering admissions scam investigated by CBI, was gunned down while he was strolling in the garden of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, where he was admitted for treatment under judicial custody. His security guard Lakshmeshwar Sah was also killed.
CBI, which probed the murder case, submitted chargesheet against 17 accused. Three of them were killed in an encounter with Ghaziabad police, two others died natural death while another accused committed suicide in jail in November 2007. Two of the accused — Satish Pandey and Naga Singh — are still absconding.
CBI special public prosecutor Rakesh Kumar examined 62 prosecution witnesses to submit that the accused reached the hospital on a Tata Sumo and an Ambassador car and opened fire to kill Brij Bihari around 8.15 pm. Mantu used a stengun while the other seven assailants used pistols and revolvers. Brij Bihari’s wife Rama Devi, currently BJP MP from Sheohar, was complainant in this case.
As many as 18 prosecution witnesses turned hostile during the trial. The defence counsel cross-examined the prosecution witnesses but did not produce any defence witness. The CBI counsel argued for capital punishment to the convicts, pleading that the killings fell in the category of the rarest of rare cases. However, the court disallowed his plea.link
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Wednesday 12 August 2009
Saturday 28 February 2009
Stone laid for Bihar centre for disabled
Union minister for social justice and empowerment Meira Kumar and CM Nitish Kumar jointly laid the foundation stone of a Composite Rehabilitation Centre (CRC) for the physically challenged.
"It will be a boon for persons with disabilities," Nitish said while speaking at the function. He, however, urged the Centre to allocate funds so that construction work could start at the earliest.
The Union minister did not disappoint the CM. While thanking the state government for allocating land for the CRC, she said a sum of Rs 6 crore has already been allocated and the construction work would start soon.
"We have also sanctioned 19 posts for the CRC-Patna and in order to ensure that people of this state are not deprived of the services of the composite centre till the building is completed, we have decided to run the CRC from a makeshift building," she said.
Earlier speaking at the function Ashish Kumar, deputy director general (DDG) in Union ministry of social justice and empowerment, spoke at length about the purpose of opening the centre.
Bihar is the sixth state after Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, UP, Madhya Pradesh and Assam to have such a centre where people with disabilities would get composite service under one roof. The Patna centre would also have facilities to train people who would be used for imparting skill-development training to people with disabilities.
Chief commissioner for persons with disabilities, Dr Manoj Kumar, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) director Dr Arun Kumar also spoke at the function.
The proposed centre would come up on a 3.3-acre plot which is located on the IGIMS premises.
The stone-laying function was followed by inauguration of the CRC in the makeshift building, the Red Cross building, near the Gandhi Maidan.link
"It will be a boon for persons with disabilities," Nitish said while speaking at the function. He, however, urged the Centre to allocate funds so that construction work could start at the earliest.
The Union minister did not disappoint the CM. While thanking the state government for allocating land for the CRC, she said a sum of Rs 6 crore has already been allocated and the construction work would start soon.
"We have also sanctioned 19 posts for the CRC-Patna and in order to ensure that people of this state are not deprived of the services of the composite centre till the building is completed, we have decided to run the CRC from a makeshift building," she said.
Earlier speaking at the function Ashish Kumar, deputy director general (DDG) in Union ministry of social justice and empowerment, spoke at length about the purpose of opening the centre.
Bihar is the sixth state after Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, UP, Madhya Pradesh and Assam to have such a centre where people with disabilities would get composite service under one roof. The Patna centre would also have facilities to train people who would be used for imparting skill-development training to people with disabilities.
Chief commissioner for persons with disabilities, Dr Manoj Kumar, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) director Dr Arun Kumar also spoke at the function.
The proposed centre would come up on a 3.3-acre plot which is located on the IGIMS premises.
The stone-laying function was followed by inauguration of the CRC in the makeshift building, the Red Cross building, near the Gandhi Maidan.link
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