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Three convicts in L.N. Mishra murder case get bail
New Delhi, April 7
The Delhi High Court on
Tuesday granted bail to three convicts who are serving life imprisonment
for assassinating then railway minister L.N. Mishra in 1975.
A
division bench of Justice G.S. Sistani and Justice Sangita Dhingra
Sehgal granted bail to Gopalji, Santoshanand Avadhuta and Sudevananda
Avadhuta,and asked them to furnish a bail bond of Rs.50,000 with two
sureties of a like amount each.
On Monday the court had granted
bail to another accused Ranjan Dwivedi, an advocate. The court asked all
the accused not to leave Delhi while on bail.
On December 8 last
year, a Delhi court had sentenced four followers of Hindu sect Anand
Marg to life imprisonment in the nearly 40-year-old case, after
convicting them for criminal conspiracy and murder.
The convicts -
Gopalji (73), Dwivedi (66), Santoshanand Avadhuta (75) and Sudevananda
Avadhuta (79) - had challenged the verdict in the high court and also
sought bail.