G Krishnaiah murder case: Who is Anand Mohan Singh?

Gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh was released from Saharsa jail on Thursday morning. The Bihar government recently amended the prison rules allowing the early release of 27 convicts including Anand Singh.

After the Bihar Government amended the rules of the Jail manual, an official notification stated that 27 prisoners who have served 14 years or 20 years in jail have been ordered to be released.

Singh was earlier on parole for 15 days to attend the engagement ceremony of his MLA son Chetan Anand. He returned to Saharsa jail on April 26 following the end of his parole period.


Anand Mohan Singh
Anand Mohan Singh was serving a life sentence in the 1994 murder of then Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah, a young IAS officer during the funeral procession of Muzaffarpur gangster Chotan Shukla.

Krishnaiah was killed by a mob allegedly provoked by Anand Mohan Singh. He was dragged out of his official car and lynched.

G Krishnaiah, a 1985-batch IAS officer, hailed from Mahbubnagar in present-day Telangana.

Anand Mohan was sentenced to death by a trial court in 2007. A year later in 2008, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Patna High Court.

Mohan then challenged the verdict in Supreme Court but no relief has been granted yet and he has remained in Saharsa jail.

His wife Lovely Anand has also been a Lok Sabha MP, while their son Chetan Anand is an RJD MLA from Bihar's Sheohar.

Responding to the uproar over his imminent release, Singh took a dig at the BJP and said convicts in the Bilkis Bano case were also released under Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's pressure.

"In Gujarat also, some decision has been taken under the pressure of RJD and Nitish Kumar, go and see that. Some people have been released and garlanded. Yes I am pointing out to that case (Bilkis Bano case) only," Singh said.

With inputs from ANI