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Jha's family seeks death penalty for Shibu Soren

Staff Reporter

Petitioners ask for Rs.50 lakh as compensation

NEW DELHI : The mother, daughters and a brother of deceased Shashinath Jha have moved the Delhi High Court urging it to award death sentence to former Union Minister Shibu Soren and four co-accused for killing Jha in 1994.

The petitioners have also sought a compensation of Rs. 50 lakh. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Manmohan Sarin and Justice S.L. Bhayana will take up the petition for hearing on March 5.

A Delhi court had, last December, awarded life imprisonment to Mr. Soren and the co-accused in the case.

It had also awarded a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh to the mother, Priyambada Devi, and the two daughters.It said that of the Rs. 5 lakh, Rs.1 lakh would to go the mother and Rs. 2 lakh each to the daughters.Shashinath Jha, private secretary to Mr. Soren, was abducted on May 22, 1994, from Dhaula Kuan in Delhi and later murdered in a residential colony in Ranchi as he had knowledge of bribe paid 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.

Shashinath Jha was in the know of an alleged secret deal between the JMM and the Congress to bail out the Narasimha Rao Government in the no-confidence motion, and he was said to be demanding his share in the deal.

The Parliament Street police station here 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 Central Bureau of Investigation, following a Delhi High Court order.

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