Patna: Patna High Court on Monday ruled that the stay would continue on criminal proceedings against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in a lower court in connection with a 19-year-old murder case.
The court said the stay will remain till disposal of Kumar's petition seeking quashing of the proceedings against him in connection with the murder of a Congress activist in 1991.
Justice Sima Ali Khan, while hearing Nitish Kumar's petition seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings initiated against him in the subordinate court in Barh, asked the additional chief judicial magistrate to continue the stay on proceedings it had ordered on September 8, 2009.
The High Court had earlier asked for records of the proceedings with respect to the FIR lodged by one Ashok Singh with the Pandarak police station, charging Kumar and another person with the killing of one Sitaram Singh.
Based on the complaint, the ACJM had summoned Kumar and one Dularchand Yadav to appear before it on September 9.
Sitaram Singh was killed in a firing incident at a polling booth at Barh during the Lok Sabha elections on November 16, 1991.
ACJM (Barh) had in September last said a prima facie case for offence under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) of IPC and 17 Arms Act was made out against Kumar and Dularchand.
In the petition filed on January 20 before the Barh court, Ashok Singh, a resident of Dhibar village, had charged Kumar with firing from a gun leading to Sitaram's death.
Sitaram and others had queued up before a polling booth for casting their ballots for the 1991 Lok Sabha by-poll in which Kumar was in fray on a ticket of the undivided Janata Dal, Singh said in his petition.
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