The Tripura High Court on Monday upheld a lower court verdict of three months imprisonment to Tripura Congress chief Birajit Sinha in a 2004 case of violation of Indian Arms Act.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Subhasish Talapatra asked Sinha to surrender before the court within one month from the date of pronouncement of the verdict.
DYFI worker Abdul Hannan and Sinha’s personal security guard Nikhil Deb had died at Baburbazar at North Tripura district following violence on the day gram panchayat election were held in July 2004. later Hannan’s father filed a case against Sinha in the court of the district and sessions judge charging him with the murder.
The court in its verdict in November 2013 acquitted Sinha of murder but ordered him to undergo three months imprisonment for violating Indian Arms Act.