BJP MLA murder case accused remanded in judicial custody

Ghazipur, UP, June 19 (UNI) In the BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai murder case, a court today remanded an accused -- sharp-shooter Sanjeev Maheshwari alias Jeeva -- in two days police custody.

Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Angad Prasad passed the order on an application moved by the prosection today.

In his application, investigator N P Singh claimed that Jeeva had confessed to his involvement in the murder and that he carried out the killing at the behest of don-turned-Independent MLA from Mau Mukhtar Ansari.

Ruling Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari, his younger brother Mukhtar and their brother-in-law Ejaz are prime accused in the case.

Presently, the three are lodged in the Ghazipur district jail.

Rai, an MLA from Mohammadabad assembly constituency in Ghazipur district, and his seven supporters were shot dead in Ghazipur on November 29 last year.

They were ambushed near the Ballia-Ghazipur border by several motorcycle-borne miscreants armed with sophisticated weapons.

Later, an FIR was lodged against 10 persons including Mukhtar, Afzal and notorious east UP gangster Munna Bajrangi in connection with the killing. Afzal surrendered in the court on December 8.

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