CBI judge Singh who convicted Lalu Prasad applied for gun licence

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 09:31 PM

CBI judge Singh who convicted Lalu Prasad applied for gun licence

CBI judge Shivpal Singh who convicted former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad last month in a corruption case, applied for revolver licenses for himself and his two children.

Ranchi's special Central Bureau of Investigation applied for the arms licenses last October.

"It is highly unusual for a sitting judge to apply for a revolver licence," said a senior official at the district collector's office.

Singh first grabbed headlines last June when Prasad's trial began in a 21-year-old fodder scam case. In August, Prasad charged Singh of misbehaving with a defense witness and filed a petition in the high court for transferring his case from Singh's court to another judge.

Two days before pronouncing the sentence in January, Singh had hinted that he had received phone calls from Prasad's well wishers but he would follow the law.