Prayagraj : The Allahabad High Court has sought records from the lower court in the case of murder of Azamgarh advocate Raj Narayan on the appeal of Angad Yadav, who was a minister in the Bahujan Samaj Party-led government. Angad Yadav was sentenced to life imprisonment in this case.
A bench of Justice MC Tripathi and Justice Prakash Padia passed the order last Wednesday on a criminal appeal filed by Angad Yadav. Angad Yadav has challenged the decision of the special MP-MLA court of Azamgarh for MP-MLAs. It is noteworthy that according to the FIR lodged at Sidhari police station in Azamgarh, on the morning of December 19, 2015, Congress leader and advocate Raj Narayan Singh was out for a walk and was shot dead under the overbridge near the railway station.
A murder case was registered
Raj Narayan’s wife Sudha Singh had filed a murder case against former minister Angad Yadav. In the investigation, this fact came to light that the marriage of Angad Yadav’s daughter was arranged by Raj Narayan. A few days after the marriage, a lawsuit started with the father-in-law of Angad Yadav’s daughter. Tension had arisen in the relationship between Raj Narayan and Angad Yadav over the withdrawal of the matrimonial case.
Azamgarh’s special MP-MLA court had sentenced four accused, including former minister Angad Yadav, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 each. The former minister has filed this criminal appeal against the sentence of life imprisonment. In this case, property worth more than 40 lakhs of former minister Angad Yadav has also been attached. Three serious cases have been registered against Angad Yadav from 2000 to 2015. The Supreme Court had already rejected the bail plea of the accused former minister who was already in jail.