Click to play videoNew Delhi: In an embarrassment to the UPA Government, Union Small Scale Industries Minister Mahavir Prasad has been charged with abettment to murder.
The Uttar Pradesh Police has registered a case against him and two others in Gorakhpur.
Prasad, a Congress MP, has been charged of involvement in the murder of one Ramprakat Singh, who was killed over a property dispute on January 28, 2008.
Using his influence, the minister allegedly got a case of accident registered against the two main suspects instead of a murder case.
This was challenged in the Allahabad High Court by the family of the victim.
On the basis of the High Court direction the police has now named Prasad a co-accused.
Who is Mahavir Prasad?
- He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bansgaon in Gorakhpur in 2004.
- He has been an MP thrice before, first being elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980.
- He has served as a Union Minister of State for Railways and also Mines in previous Congress governments.
- He was also the Governor of Haryana from 1995 to 2000.
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