The MLA had on Friday urged a Delhi court to spare him the jail term, arguing that he committed the crime due to “lack of scientific knowledge”.
A Delhi court has sentenced BJP Bihar MLA Raju Kumar Singh to four years in prison in a 2018 celebratory shooting case inside a farm in south Delhi that led to the death of Archana Gupta.
The court of Special Judge Vishal Ghojne also ordered compensation of $100,000 $25 thousand for the husband of the deceased.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Raju Kumar Singh was convicted last month in the case of the celebratory shooting that killed a 45-year-old woman on New Year’s Eve 2018. He urged a Delhi court on Friday to spare him the jail term, arguing that he committed the crime due to “lack of scientific knowledge” as he could not have predicted the parabolic path the fired bullet would take, HT had earlier reported.
The submissions were made before Special Judge Vishal Gaughney of Ross Avenue Courts, who was hearing arguments on the quantum of punishment in the case. The court reserved its order until Saturday.
The court on June 6 convicted Singh, a BJP MLA from Sahibganj in Bihar, in a case in which he fired a bullet in the air while celebrating inside a farmhouse in south Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri on New Year’s Eve in 2018, ultimately wounding Archana Gupta, wife of plaintiff Vikas Gupta and an attendee at the party organized by Singh’s brother.
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