New Delhi, July 5 -- A court in Delhi on Saturday awarded four years' simple imprisonment to Raju Kumar Singh, a BJP MLA from Bihar, on charges of murder following the death of a woman in a celebratory firing incident in 2018. Singh, the MLA from Bihar's Sahebganj, has also been ordered to pay a Rs.25 lakh fine, to be paid as compensation to the victim's family.

"We need neither a Singham nor a Pushpa in a state governed by the rule of law. The brazen act of firing by Raju Kumar Singh was, however, an inspiration to both such aspirations," Special Judge Vishal Gogne said on Saturday.

Singh was convicted last month under Section 304 Part II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder with knowledge) of the IPC and under provisions of the ...