Bihar govt notifies release of former MP Anand Mohan Singh, 26 other prisoners

The Bihar authorities on Monday notified the discharge of 27 prisoners, inclusive of former MP Anand Mohan Singh, days after the Nitish Kumar-led dispensation amended the Bihar Prison Manual, 2012.

“In the mild of the Bihar kingdom sentence remission council assembly on April 20, 2023, the selection became taken for the discharge of prisoners having served real sentence of 14 years or sentence of twenty years with remission,” stated the notification issued via way of means of the kingdom`s regulation department.

The gangster-turned-politician, Anand Mohan`s call is at the eleventh region withinside the listing of 27 names. Mohan`s son and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator Chetan Anand`s wedding ceremony is scheduled on May three in Dehradun.

On April 10, the Nitish Kumar authorities amended the Bihar Prison Manual, 2012, getting rid of the “homicide of a public servant on duty” clause from the listing of instances for which remission of prison time period can’t be considered, which helped Mohan, a Rajput chief with extensive impact on his caste voters.

Mohan is presently serving existence sentence for the homicide of then Gopalganj district Justice of the Peace G Krishnaiah, a 1985-batch IAS officer who hailed from Mahbubnagar in present-day Telangana, on December 5, 1994 in Muzaffarpur.

A path courtroom docket in October 2007 reported demise sentence for Mohan, which became later commuted to existence imprisonment via way of means of Patna excessive courtroom docket in December 2008 whilst appealed in opposition to the decrease courtroom docket`s verdict. Mohan challenged it withinside the Supreme Court, however were given no alleviation and remained in Saharsa prison considering that 2007.