Patna court allows Anant Singh to file nomination papers

A district court today granted permission to jailed MLA Anant Singh to contest Bihar assembly election.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ) Patna Satya Prakash Singh accepted plea of the legislator and allowed him to file his nomination papers from Mokama assembly constituency in Patna district.
The court directed Beur central jail Superintendent to produce Anant Singh before Barh Sub-divisional officer's (SDO) office on October 7, 2015 so that he can file his nomination papers.
Singh, who had been elected from Mokama on a JD-U ticket, faces several criminal cases and was arrested in July in connection with a kidnapping case in Bihta in Patna district in November last year. He had quit JD-U on September 2, 2015.

The arrest of the MLA, known for his muscle power, took place after demand by RJD President Lalu Prasad in the wake of a kidnapping of four youths, one of whom was later found murdered in Barh in rural Patna this year.
After Anant Singh quit JD-U, the grand secular alliance fielded MLC Niraj Kumar from Mokama seat.