The Supreme Court on Friday sentenced former Lok Sabha member from Bihar Prabhunath Singh to life imprisonment in a 28-year-old double murder case. He was convicted in 2017 and was lodged in Hazaribagh jail in Jharkhand.
A three-judge Special Bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, A.S. Oka and Vikram Nath had taken the rare step, on August 18, to set aside two lower court decisions and find Mr. Singh guilty of the murders. Both the trial court and the Patna High Court had acquitted him in 2008 and 2012, respectively.
Hearing arguments on the sentencing part on Friday, Justice Kaul observed that there were only two punishment options — life sentence or death penalty — before the former MP.
