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Court Upholds Bihar MP Life Sentence For Instigating Murder
Issue 29, July 15, 2012
BBC NEWS, INDIA
July 10, 2012: India's top court has rejected appeals against the conviction of former Bihar MP Anand Mohan for his role in a 1994 murder, upholding his life sentence.
Mohan and his wife were convicted for instigating the murder of a civil servant who was lynched by a crowd. Mohan was initially sentenced to death, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment. His wife was given a life term but later acquitted.
The Supreme Court order was delivered on Tuesday morning.
The brutal killing of a district magistrate named G Krishnaiyah by an angry crowd incited to shoot, stone and beat him to death was taken as a symbol of the extent of lawlessness in the state of Bihar.
