ADJ III AWARDS RIGOROUS LIFE IMPRISONMENT TO 23 PERSONS INCLUDING CPI-ML FROM AGIAW ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY MANOJ MANJIL

Ara (RNI) Additional District and Session Judge III cum MP-MLA Special Judge, Ara Civil Court, Satyendra Singh awarded rigorous life imprisonment to 23named accused including the CPI-ML MLA from Agiaw (R) Assembly Constituency Manoj Manjil in connection with a murder about nine years ago and also slapped a fine of Rs. 10,000 on each of them under section 302/149 IPC. The police had submitted charge sheet against 23 persons including Manoj Manjil except Jawahar Paswan in want of evidence. The court awarded rigorous life imprisonment to the CPI-ML MLA from Agiaw Assembly Constituency Manoj Manil of Kapur Dihara village under Tarari police station, Chandhran Rai of Kurmichak village under Narayanpur police station, Jai Kumar Yadav, Nandu Yadav of Khedi village under Aziambad police station, China Ram, Bharat Ram, Triloki Ram, Prabhu Chaudhary, Ramanand Prasad, Tanman Chaudhary, Manoj Chaudhary, Sarvesh Chaudhary, Pawan Chaudhary, Nand Kumar Chaudhary, Ram Bali Chaudhary, Guddu Chaudhary, Gabar Chaudhary, Prem Ram, Baban Chaudhary, Ramadhar Chaudhary, Ravindra Chaudhary, Shivbali Chaudhary, Rohit Chaudhary of Baadgao under Azimabad police station. The police later sent all the accused to jail including Manoj Manjil under tight security.

APP Siya Ram Singh said that some armed miscreants had killed Jai Prakash Singh of Badakagao under Azimabad police station in Bhojpur district in between Badakagaon-Nariyadih villages in the evening at about 6.30pm on August 20, 2015. A named FIR was lodged with the police under Azimabad police station against 24 persons including the CPI-ML MLA Manoj Manjil on the statement of Chandn Kumar, son of the deceased. In the FIR he blamed that he along with his father Jai Prakash Singh was returning home in the evening on August 20, 2015 when the Manoj Manjil along with hundreds of aides came from his election meeting and thrashed his father with traditional weapons and killed him. They also took the body with them to erase evidence though somehow fled from the scene and survived. Later the police had recovered the lacerated body from near Situhari Canal on August 27, 2015. Chandan Kumar also said that he and his family had non enmity with Manoj Manjil and they killed his father only as he belonged to upper caste.

Hearing both the parties, the ADJ III cum MP-MLA Special Judge convicted 23 persons including the CPI-ML MLA, Manoj Manjil and awarded them rigorous life imprisonment and also slapped a fine of Rs. 10,000 on each of them.

Meanwhile, hundreds of activists of the CPI-ML took out a procession from Ambedkar Chowk near the Ara Civil Court that passed through the main thoroughfares of the town and culminated into a meeting near the Ara town police station. They also observed statewide protest day in protest against awarding of rigorous life imprisonment to 23 persons including the CPI-ML MLA from Agiaw Assembly Constituency Manoj Manjil.

Addressing the meeting, the CPI-ML leaders said that the punishment to 23 persons including Manoj Manjil is politically motivated. They stated that as soon as the BJP came to power in Bihar, a conspiracy is being hatched to gag the voice of the poor by tightening the noose of law around the neck of the people fighting for the poor but the people in power are in dilemma. The voice cannot be suppressed rather the struggle will be done by becoming more vocal.

The leaders said that in the year 2015, at the behest of local BJP leaders, a murder case Jai Prakash Singh was imposed against the party leaders. A few days before this incident, their party leader, Satish Yadav was murdered by the BJP but their killers are still roaming around but the one who fought for the poor and the prominent leader of ‘School on Road’ movement was hanged under a well-planned conspiracy. They added that one on hand, their leaders are being punished while on the other hand, the murders involved in the murder of the poor are being released. With the change in power in Bihar, the BJP showed its fascist colour but this evil intensions will not be allowed to succeed.