HC takes note of delay in Brij Bihari case

PATNA: Taking a serious note of the continuing delay in framing of charges in former minister and senior Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Brij Bihari Prasad murder case, the Patna High Court (HC) has inquired about the reason behind it from the session trial court.
Prasad was murdered in judicial custody on the premises of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in 1998.
He was arrested in connection with the engineering entrance merit scam case during his tenure as science and technology minister.
According to sources, the HC, in a letter to the additional district and session judge XII, has inquired about the reason behind the delay in the framing of charges. It is almost over a year when the CBI filed the chargesheet against the accused in the case. Most of the accused, Vijay Shukla alias Munna Shukla, Captain Sunil, Sunil Singh, Lallan Singh and Mantoo Tiwary and the MLAs, Surajbhan Singh and Rajan Tiwary, are in judicial custody. Only Sashi Kumar and R Niranjan were granted bail.