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The Supreme Court has upheld the decision of the Patna High Court to acquit six people, including former MP Suraj Bhan, in the murder case of former Bihar government minister Brij Bihari Prasad. The Supreme Court has sentenced two convicts including Munna Shukla to life imprisonment. The court has asked both of them to surrender within 15 days.
In this case, Patna High Court acquitted 8 people including former MP Surajbhan Singh, former MLA Munna Shukla. This order of the High Court was challenged in the Supreme Court by Brij Bihari Prasad's wife Rama Devi and CBI. This decision was given by the bench of Justice Sanjeev Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice R Mahadevan in the Supreme Court. The court sentenced Munna Shukrala and Mantu Tiwari to life imprisonment and asked them to surrender within 15 days.
In the year 2014, in the case of Bihar Government's Science and Technology Minister Brij Bihari Prasad, Patna High Court had acquitted all the 8 accused Munna Shukla, Suraj Bhan, Rajan Tiwari due to lack of evidence. This decision of Patna High Court was challenged in the Supreme Court by Brij Bihari Prasad's wife Rama Devi and CBI. The hearing on his appeal in the Supreme Court was completed on August 22 and the court reserved the verdict and pronounced its verdict today.
The Supreme Court bench said that the charges against Mantu Tiwari and Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla under sections 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code have been proved. The bench also asked him to surrender within 15 days.
On July 24, 2014, the High Court, while considering the evidence, said that Surajbhan Singh alias Suraj Singh, Mukesh Singh, Lallan Singh, Mantu Tiwari, Captain Sunil Singh, Ram Niranjan Chaudhary, Shashi Kumar Rai, Munna Shukla and Rajan Tiwari are eligible. The prosecution. Benefit of doubt. It set aside the August 12, 2009 order of the subordinate court which had convicted them and sentenced all the accused to life imprisonment.