RJD leader and ex-MP Prabhunath Singh was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with 22-year old Mashrakh MLA Ashok Kumar Singh murder case.

Ashok Singh, then an MLA of Lalu Prasad’s party Janata Dal, was murdered at his official residence in Patna. Prabhunath was a Janata Dal (U) MP when this incident happened.

The verdict was pronounced by 9th Additional District and Sessions Judge, Hazaribagh, Surendra Sharma. The court also pronounced life imprisonment to Prabhunath’s brother Deenanath Singh and nephew Ritesh Singh.

The Judgement was pronounced through video-conferencing at Hazaribagh jail where all three convicted persons are lodged since last Thursday when the court found them guilty and sent to the jail.

In 1997, the Patna high court, after hearing a plea of the murdered MLA’s widow, had transferred the case to Hazaribagh district court from Patna district court.