New Delhi, June 6 -- A Delhi court on Saturday convicted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Bihar's Sahebganj in a case of celebratory firing inside his farmhouse in south Delhi's Fatehpur Beri on New Year's Eve in 2018, which led to the death of a 45-year-old woman, and ordered that the MLA be taken into custody.

Special Judge Vishal Gogne of Rouse Avenue Courts convicted MLA Raju Kumar Singh under Indian Penal Code Section 304 (II) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and under Section 30 of the Arms Act (punishment for contravention of licence or rule).

The matter has been listed for June 9 for arguments on the point of sentence. The maximum punishment for the offences is three years of imprisonment.

The court, meanwhile, ...