Former Bihar MLA gets 10 years in jail in INSAS rifle recovery case, plans to move SC

The MP/ MLA court on Thursday sentenced former RJD MLA Anant Singh to 10 years imprisonment in the INSAS rifle recovery case in 2015. After getting sentenced to 10 years, Singh went furious to the extent that he used inappropriate words for the court.

Patna:The MP / MLA court on Thursday sentenced former RJD MLA Anant Singh to 10 years imprisonment in the INSAS rifle recovery case in 2015. After getting sentenced to 10 years, Singh went furious to the extent that he used inappropriate words for the court. While being taken out from the court premises in the jail's ambulance Singh informed the media that he would move Supreme Court against this ruling. "I will approach the higher courts and will go till Supreme Court. I have full faith in Judiciary," said Singh.

In the year 2015, the Secretariat police station personnel raided the official residence of Anant Singh on Mingles Road, Patna on 24 June and recovered an INSAS rifle, bullet-proof jacket, some hand grenades, and ammunition after which he was also got arrested. At that time Bihar's dreaded gangsters-turned-politician Anant Singh was the MLA of Janata Dal-United (JD-U).

Singh has also lost his membership of the assembly last week following his conviction in a criminal case related to similar arms recovery from his ancestral home in 2019. Earlier, in June MP/MLA special court sentenced Bahubali RJD MLA Anant Singh to 10 years imprisonment in the AK-47 recovery case. In 2019, an AK-47 rifle, two hand grenades, and 26 live cartridges were recovered from Anant Singh's house in his native village Nadwan and the MP-MLA court on June 14 held him guilty of the offense.

Besides Anant Singh, the caretaker of his house Sunil Ram has also been awarded 10 years in jail. MP-MLA court judge Triloki Dubey has announced the highest quantum of punishment to the RJD MLA and his caretaker.