Krishnaiah’s murder: Convict’s wife, acquitted accused in LS bid
Hindustan TimesOn December 5, 1994, G Krishnaiah, a young Indian Administrative Service officer in Bihar, then posted as the district magistrate of Gopalganj, was returning to his residence after attending a meeting in Hajipur. Former MLA Munna Shukla was one of the accused in the 1994 IAS officer’s killing case, but was later acquitted. Three decades later, Chhotan Shukla‘s younger brother Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla, who was an accused in the Krishnaiah murder case, is ready to make a bid for the Vaishali Lok Sabha seat on a ticket from Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal. Munna Shukla, though acquitted by the Patna High Court in 2014 in the IAS officer’s killing case, also has a history sheet in crime. He served time in jail in connection with former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad’s sensational killing but was acquitted by the court, which gave him benefit of the doubt along with others.