INDIA. FORMER MP ANAND MOHAN APPEALS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE

former Lok Sabha member Anand Mohan appealed to the Patna High Court in India against the death sentence awarded to him in connection with the lynching of the then Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah nearly 13 years ago. Mohan's counsel Ashutosh Singh filed the appeal citing the sentence as unwarranted and a result of error in records. Singh said it would take some time before the appeal comes up for hearing. Additional District and Sessions Judge of Patna R S Rai had on October 3, 2007 sentenced Mohan and former MLAs Akhlaq Ahmed and Arun Kumar to death and four others to life imprisonment for the lynching of Krishnaiah. Krishnaiah was lynched by a mob accompanying the cortege of a Bihar People's Party (BPP) leader Chotan Shukla on December 5, 1994. The officer was beaten mercilessly and then shot. Anand Mohan, a former MP from Sheohar, who was then the BPP chief, Lovely Anand, Munna Shukla, who is the younger brother of Chotan Shukla, Akhlaq Ahmed, Shashi Shekhar, Arun Kumar and Harendra Kumar were accused of having incited the mob to kill Krishnaiah.