2 MAY ,2023
02-05-2023
By Admin
Political remission (pg 6)(gs 2)
2 MAY ,2023
•The circumstances of the release ofAnand Mohan Singh are unsettling
The Bihar government’s decision late last month to grant remission to Anand Mohan Singh is a disturbing political signal given the circumstances under which the remission was done.
At the time of his release, the former MP, who was out on parole for his son’s engagement, was serving life sentence after being convicted for the murder of the then District
Magistrate of Gopalganj and young IAS officer, G.
Krishnaiah, in December 1994.
It was to avenge a police encounter death that a mob owing allegiance to Singh had murdered the Scheduled Caste civil servant, who hailed from a landless family