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Patna High Court. – Photo: Amar Ujala Digital
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Patna High Court has acquitted all the named accused including the infamous Santosh Jha and Mukesh Pathak Kalia in the double engineer murder case that took place in Bahedi police station area of Darbhanga district. In December 2015, Bihar’s famous double engineer murder took place in broad daylight in Baheri, in which Santosh Jha gang gunned down an engineer in broad daylight for not paying extortion money from the road construction company. In this case, Santosh Jha, Vikas Jha Kalia, Mukesh Pathak, Nikesh Duve, Pintu Jha, Munni Devi, Pintu Lal Dev, Sanjay Lal Dev, Pintu Tiwari and Abhishek Jha, all the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Darbhanga District and Sessions Court in March. Was narrated in 2018. After this incident, Santosh Jha and Abhishek Jha were murdered during their appearance in Motihari court premises.
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All the accused had appealed in the Patna High Court against the decision of life imprisonment given by the Darbhanga Civil Court, which was heard by the division bench of Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Rajesh Kumar Verma of the Patna High Court. After completion of the hearing, the final decision was reserved. The verdict in this case was pronounced today, in which all the accused were acquitted. In the said case, the side of the main accused Vikas Jha Kalia was presented by advocates Ashar Mustafa, Prateek Mishra and Vikas Kumar Jha.
In the Baheri police station area, road construction company engineers Brajesh Kumar Singh and Mukesh Kumar Singh were gunned down with sophisticated weapons in broad daylight, due to which both of them died on the spot. In this case, Darbhanga Police took massive and swift action and arrested all the accused including Mukesh Pathak, Santosh Jha Kalia and not only sent them to jail but also filed a charge sheet swiftly. ADJ 5 Rupesh Dev of Darbhanga Civil Court had sentenced all the accused to life imprisonment in March 2018. Advocate Vikas Kumar Jha said that due to faulty research and lack of evidence, Patna High Court acquitted all the accused.
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