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Ranchi, Sep 26 (PTI) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday granted bail to former minister Enos Ekka, who is in jail after being convicted in a case of kidnap and murder of a para-teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A division bench of justices Amitav Kumar Gupta and Rajesh Kumar allowed Ekka”s bail petition saying no definite evidence was found against him in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It ordered Ekka to furnish two sureties of Rs 10000 each, not to leave the state without its permission, deposit his passport and not influence witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ekka in his petition said that the Simdega court had convicted him though the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Hyderabad, where a CD that had purportedly recorded his voice and that of another accused in the case was sent, said it had no technology to examine it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ekka was a Jharkhand party MLA from Kolibera and a minister between 2005-2008 in minister in three governments led by Arjun Munda, Madhu Koda and Shibu Soren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was accused of kidnapping of Manoj Kumar on November 26, 2014 during the assembly election in the state. Kumar”s body was recovered near a school the next day and Ekka was arrested from Thakurtoli in Simdega district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Simdega court had convicted Ekka on June 30, 2018 and sentenced him to life imprisonment on July 3 that year under IPC sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), 364A (kidnapping for ransom), 171F (undue influence at an election) and under Arms Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court had also slapped a fine of Rs 1.65 lakh on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On September 16 this year, the Simdega court had handed life imprisonment to Peoples Liberation Front of India member Koleshwar Mahato in the same case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dhaneswar Baidik, who was among the accused in the case had also been sentenced to life imprisonment along with Ekka.<\/p>\n
Source: outlookindia.com Ranchi, Sep 26 (PTI) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday granted bail to former minister Enos Ekka, who is in jail after being convicted in a case of kidnap and murder of a para-teacher. A division bench of justices Amitav Kumar Gupta and Rajesh Kumar allowed Ekka”s bail petition saying no definite evidence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2968],"tags":[5191,3356,46,5192,1497,1025],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jharkhand-high-court","tag-former","tag-jharkhand","tag-jharkhand-high-court","tag-kidnap","tag-minister","tag-murder-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6717,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions\/6717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}