Senior RJD leader and four-time MP Prabhunath Singh has been sentenced to life by a Jharkhand court, which found him guilty for murder of the then MLA Ashok Singh in 1995. The Hazaribagh Court convicted him along with two others – his brother and a former mukhiya.
The RJD leader and his brother were arrested soon after the court found them guilty and are now lodged in Hazaribagh Central Jail. Initially the case was heard in Patna but the Supreme Court transferred the case to Hazaribagh, thus accepting the plea of relatives of the slain MLA who feared Prabhunath could influence court proceedings.
