New Delhi, July 4 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Raju Kumar Singh, convicted last month in a case of celebratory firing that killed a 45-year-old woman on New Year's Eve 2018, urged a Delhi court on Friday to spare him a jail term, arguing that he committed the offence due to a "lack of scientific knowledge" as he could not have anticipated the parabolic trajectory the fired bullet would take.

The submissions were made before Special Judge Vishal Gogne of Rouse Avenue Courts, who was hearing arguments on the quantum of sentence in the case. The court has reserved its order for Saturday.

The court had on June 6 convicted Singh, a sitting BJP MLA from Bihar's Sahebganj, in a case where he fired a bullet in the air while celebrating i...