Slain IAS officer's wife appeals PM Modi to intervene in Anand Mohan's release

New Delhi: Slain IAS officer G Krishnaiah's wife Uma Devi has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu to intervene in the release of the convicted killer of her husband. 

Uma Devi was reacting on the release of Anand Mohan, the convicted killer of on-duty IAS officer and her husband G Krishnaiah.

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"I appeal to the President and the PM to intervene in this matter and ask CM Nitish Kumar to send him (Anand Mohan) back to jail," she said. 

#WATCH | "I appeal to the President and the PM to intervene in this matter and ask CM Nitish Kumar to send him (Anand Mohan) back to jail...," says Uma Devi, wife of the then Gopalganj DM (Bihar), G Krishnaiah who was murdered by gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh in… pic.twitter.com/4KtZ8WGEEt

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Mohan had been accused of leading a mob that lynched Krishnaiah in 1994 on the outskirts of Muzaffarpur. The former MP and his family members, however, maintain that he had been "framed" in the case.

Known to be fairly popular among the Rajputs of Bihar, Mohan seems to have left the BJP a divided house.