4 get life for killing Jharkhand Congress neta

The additional district sessions court of Gulam Haidar in Koderma in Jharkhand has sentenced four people to life and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each over the murder of the district Congress president and his bodyguard in 2018.

Police identified the four convicts as Munesh Yadav, Pawan Yadav, Ramdev Yadav, and Naresh Yadav. The victim, Shankar Yadav, district Congress president, was returning from his mines at Bhatbigha in Feb 2018, when the four assailants attacked him with bombs, killing him and his bodyguard, Krishna Yadav, and injuring Dharmendra Yadav, the driver of their vehicle. Hemlata Devi, wife of Shankar, had filed a complaint and police investigation nailed the culprits.

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