Bihar: Five Naxalites convicted for murder of DFO Sanjay Kumar Singh
The four accused, namely Nirala Yadav, Ram Bachan, Lalan Singh and Nitish Kumar Oraon, all were sentenced life imprisonment while the fifth accused Sudama Uraon will have to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.
In Short
- Nirala Yadav, Ram Bachan, Lalan Singh and Nitish Oraon were sentenced with life imprisonment
- Fifth accused Sudama Uraon will have to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment
- The naxalites had killed DFO Sanjay Kumar Singh on February 2, 2002 in village Rehal
Five Naxals were today convicted by a special court in Bihar for Sanjay Kumar Singh, then Divisional Forest Office, Shahabad Division in Sasaram.
The four accused, namely Nirala Yadav, Ram Bachan, Lalan Singh and Nitish Kumar Oraon, all were sentenced life imprisonment while the fifth accused Sudama Uraon will have to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.
CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said here today that the agency had registered a case on March 22, 2002 on the request of the Bihar government.
The court, further, directed that all the sentences of the convicts Nitish Kumar Uraon, Lallan Singh and Ram Bachan shall run concurrently. However, Nirala Yadav, Commander of the group shall first undergo sentence U/s 22(5) of POTA, 27 of Arms Act, 148, 353 r/w 149 & 323 of IPC concurrently before commencement of life sentence U/s 3(2)(a) of POTA and 302 r/w 149 IPC and these both the sentence run concurrently.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered the murder case on March 22, 2002 on the request of government of Bihar.
It was alleged that on February 14, 2002, few persons of village Rehal had gone to village Daleli, District Garhwa (Jharkhand) for the marriage of Lalmuni @ Bilath Yadav with Shail Devi and was to return on February 2, 2002. A group of MCC naxalites armed with weapons under the leadership of Nirala Yadav had gathered in village Rehal to create trouble for the marriage of Shail Devi whose marriage was earlier almost settled with Ram Bachan Yadav, a naxalite.
Subsequently, the marriage of Shail Devi was settled with Lalmuni as the family members of Shail Devi came to know about Ram Bachan Yadav being a worker of MCC. On February 2, 2002, when Sanjay Kumar Singh, DFO, and his officials reached the Forest Range Office in village Rehal, they were surrounded by these naxalites. The naxalites demanded Rs 5 lakh from the DFO but he refused to pay. Sanjay Kumar Singh was forcibly taken away from the village inside the jungle by the naxalites, where he was shot dead on the instructions of Nirala Yadav.
After thorough investigation, the CBI filed a chargesheet/supplementary chargesheets against accused persons in the 2006-2009.
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