Prayagraj, May 13 A special MP-MLA court here on Wednesday sentenced four-time former legislator Vijay Mishra and three others to rigourous life imprisonment in a 46-year-old murder case.
District Government Counsel Manoj Pandey said the court convicted former MLA Mishra, Sant Ram Mishra, Balram Mishra and Jeet Narayan under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each convict, he said.
The government counsel said the court also sentenced all four convicts to 10 years' imprisonment under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each.
According to the prosecution, the case dates back to February 11, 1980, when Shyam Narayan Pandey, a resident of Hathigahan village under Nawabganj police station area, lodged an FIR at Colonelganj police station alleging that the accused opened fire at his brother Prakash Narayan Pandey, who had gone to the district court to secure bail in a case.
Prakash Narayan Pandey sustained bullet injuries to the chest and was rushed to the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital where doctors declared him dead, the prosecution said.
The court pronounced the sentence amid tight security arrangements.
Mishra, a four-time former MLA from the Gyanpur assembly constituency in Bhadohi district, was brought to Prayagraj from Agra jail for the hearing.
Mishra had won elections three times on a Samajwadi Party ticket and once as a candidate of the Nishad Party. Several criminal cases, including those related to murder, extortion, kidnapping and fraud, are pending against him.
