It is not known whether it is a typo or how it happened, but in the Supreme Court decision in the Brij Bihari Prasad murder case, one of the accused and Gopalganj don Satish Pandey has been shown dead in life. In the 40-page order of the Supreme Court that was published on the court’s website, Satish Pandey is found dead, while Satish Pandey is found safe and sound in his village in Gopalganj. In the Supreme Court’s 40-page decision, Satish Pandey’s name was mentioned five times, in which Pandey was shown dead twice, while he was not dead in front of Pandey’s name three times.
Former Bihar government minister and gangster Brij Bihari Prasad was murdered on June 13, 1998 at IGIMS hospital in Patna. On October 3, the Supreme Court justified the release of six of the nine accused acquitted by the Patna High Court in the Brij Bihari Prasad murder case, while upholding the life sentence imposed on two accused. by the lower court. About 15 people were charged in the case.
It has been said that a separate trial is underway against Satish Pandey, Naga Singh of Mokama and some other accused in this case. When the first chargesheet was filed before the trial court, they were fugitives. No charges could be brought against them, so their case continues separately. In the Supreme Court’s decision, shooter Shriprakash Shukla, former MP Bhupendra Nath Dubey, former MP Shashi Kumar Rai, Captain Sunil Singh and Satish Pandey were declared dead. The rest have died but Satish Pandey is alive.
Dozens of cases were registered against Satish Pandey, but in many of them he has already been acquitted. Satish Pandey’s younger brother Amarendra Pandey alias Pappu Pandey is a JDU MLA. Pappu Pandey won from Kuchayakot seat for the third consecutive time. Satish’s wife Urmila Pandey and son Mukesh Pandey have also been president of Gopalganj district council. The Pandey family dominates the area, from contracts to leases to politics. Satish Pandey has come of age and now lives in his village.
On August 12, 2009, the trial court sentenced eight accused, including Surajbhan Singh, Munna Shukla and Rajan Tiwari, to death. One of the accused, Shashi Kumar Rai, was sentenced to two years in prison. All the accused had challenged this decision before the High Court. Five years later, on July 24, 2014, the High Court overturned the trial court’s decision and acquitted everyone.
Investigation agency CBI and Brij Bihari’s wife and former MP Rama Devi approached the Supreme Court against the High Court decision. In its decision last week, the Supreme Court upheld the life sentence imposed on Munna Shukla and Mantu Tiwari by the trial court. The bench of Justice Sanjeev Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice R Mahadevan had justified the High Court’s decision to acquit 6 accused, including Surajbhan Singh and Rajan Tiwari.
