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Soren files appeal in High Court

Nirnimesh Kumar

NEW DELHI: The former Union Minister Shibu Soren has filed an appeal in the Delhi High Court challenging his conviction in the Shashinath Jha murder case.

A Delhi court had last December awarded life imprisonment to him and four others in the case.

The other accused are Nand Kishore alias Nandu, Ajay Kumar Mehta alias Dilip, Pashupati Nath Mehta alias Posho and Shailendra Bhattacharya.

Jha, a private secretary to Mr. Soren, was abducted on May 22, 1994, from Dhaula Kuan in South-West Delhi and later murdered in a residential colony in Ranchi as he had knowledge of the payment of bribe to four erstwhile Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MPs, including Mr. Soren, who had voted against the no-confidence motion against the P.V. Narasimha Rao Government in July 1993.

Jha reportedly knew about the alleged secret deal between the JMM and the Congress to bail out the Narasimha Rao Government , and he was demanding a share. The Parliament Street police station had registered a case of abduction and murder on a complaint by Amar Nath Jha, elder brother of Shashinath Jha, in June 1994.

The case was later transferred to the CBI.

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