IAS officer’s Murderer released from jail; Daughter has appealed To PM Modi

Padma Krishnaiah, the daughter of the IAS officer murdered in Bihar 29 years ago, has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the release of Anand Mohan Singh, the man jailed in the case. A gangster-turned-politician, Anand Mohan Singh was released today following a tweak in the jail rules of the state.

The matter has turned into a huge political controversy, with the top body of IAS officers in the country and leaders of the BJP criticising the Nitish Kumar government. In 1994, G Krishnaiah — Padma Krishnaiah’s father and then district magistrate of Gopalganj — was killed by a mob that was protesting over the murder of another gangster-politician belonging to Anand Mohan Singh’s party.

They were allegedly egged on by Singh. G Krishnaiah, who was just passing through the area, was dragged out of his official car and beaten to death. In 2007, Anand Mohan, whose son is an MLA from Lalu Yadav’s RJD, was sentenced to death. But the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he was in jail for 15 years.