Jharkhand MLA gets life imprisonment on Murder Charges

  • 5 years ago
NewsX: A local court today convicted Congress MLA Savna Lakra and three others for killing a youth who was allegedly in a relationship with Lakra's niece.

Convicting Savna Lakra, his bodyguard Janak Mahato, driver Gopi Kashyap and his associate Dinesh Lakra in the murder of Avinash Tiwari, District and Sessions Judge S S Kazmi fixed May 15 to pronounce the quantum of sentence.

Avinash's father had filed an FIR of abduction and murder against the representative of Khijri MLA and three others after the bullet-riddled body was recovered in a forest at Karra in the neighbouring Khunti district on April 27, 2011.