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Former Union Minister Shibu Soren, who has been acquitted in the Shashi Nath Jha murder case, will appear before a Giridih court today in connection with the 1974 Kurko murder case.Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Soren is an accused along with some others, who had allegedly killed one Balbir Rai of Kurko village in Giridih District, for having killed a goat and eaten its meat.
Dumka, Aug 24 : Former Union Minister Shibu Soren, who has been acquitted in the Shashi Nath Jha murder case, will appear before a Giridih court today in connection with the 1974 Kurko murder case.Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Soren is an accused along with some others, who had allegedly killed one Balbir Rai of Kurko village in Giridih District, for having killed a goat and eaten its meat.
According to jail sources, Soren, who is currently lodged in the Dumka central jail, left for Giridih early this morning.
Soren is waiting for his release order, after he was acquitted in connection with his private secretary, Shashi Nath Jha, murder case on Wednesday.
Soren's aide Krishna Singh had said that the JMM leader is likely to be freed today because on Thursday his release was delayed following a technical hitch in his release order.
The Delhi High Court had acquitted Soren along with four other convicts -- Nand Kishore Mehta, Shailendra Bhattacharya, Pashupati Nath Mehta and Ajay Kumar Mehta.
A local court had on December 26, 2006 sentenced Soren and four others to life imprisonment for kidnapping and killing Jha.
The JMM leader had challenged his conviction and life sentence in connection with the murder case, which took place in 1992.
Prosecutors said Jha went missing from the Dhaula Kuan area of Delhi on May 22, 1992, and was last seen in Ranchi in the company of Soren loyalists the next day.
They claim that Jha was later murdered as he allegedly possessed knowledge about the money received by JMM MPs, including Soren, from former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao to vote in favour of his minority government in Parliament in 1993.
ANI
