‘For your own benefit…’: Sushil Modi slams Nitish Kumar over Anand Mohan Singh’s release

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday slammed Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar over the discharge of gangster-turned-baby-kisser Anand Mohan Singh – who changed into serving a lifestyles sentence for the homicide of the then Gopalganj district Justice of the Peace G Krishnaiah. The BJP chief alleged that the Kumar-led dispensation amended the Bihar Prison Manual, 2012 for “his personal advantage”.

“In 2016 you (CM Nitish Kumar) amended the regulation and blanketed that the ones located responsible of killing a central authority professional will in no way receive the advantage of remission. Now in your personal advantage, you’ve got got amended the regulation once more so you can win the election,” Sushil Modi informed information enterprise ANI.

On Monday, the Bihar authorities notified the discharge of 27 prisoners, consisting of former MP Anand Mohan Singh. A notification issued via way of means of the country`s regulation branch read, “In the mild of the Bihar country sentence remission council assembly on April 20, 2023, the choice changed into taken for the discharge of prisoners having served an real sentence of 14 years or sentence of two decades with remission.”

In 2007, an ordeal courtroom docket had said a demise sentence for the gangster-turned-baby-kisser for the homicide of G Krishnaiah – a 1985-batch IAS officer who hailed from Mahbubnagar in present-day Telangana. However, his sentence changed into later commuted to lifestyles imprisonment via way of means of Patna excessive courtroom docket.

According to a clause from the Bihar Prison Manual, anybody located responsible of killing a central authority professional will now no longer receive the advantage of remission ever. On April 10, the Bihar authorities eliminated this clause – which helped Mohan in his release.

Meanwhile, the spouse of the previous IAS officer who changed into murdered via way of means of Mohan additionally hit out at Nitish Kumar-led authorities on Tuesday. “We aren’t happy, we experience it’s far wrong. There is caste politics in Bihar…he (Anand Mohan) is a Rajput, so he’s going to get Rajput votes and this is why he’s being taken out (from jail), otherwise, what’s the want of bringing a criminal? He can be given an election price price tag in order that he can deliver Rajput votes,” she informed ANI.