The Durg District Court of Additional Sessions Judge Mansoor Ahmed on Friday acquitted lok Janshakti Party (lJP) MP Rama Singh alias Ram Kishore Singh (53) in connection with a 16-year-old abduction case of a petrol pump owner due to lack of evidence.
MP Rama Singh was found exonerated under Section 412 and Section 120 (B) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) by the court.
Meanwhile, Additional Sessions Judge Mansoor Ahmed sentenced another accused Ashok Singh alias Manager (45) to life imprisonment under Section 120 (B), 364 (A), 344, 336 and 395 of IPC in the case along with penalty.
It may be recalled that the petrol pump owner Jaichand Vaidya was abducted in May 2001 when he was returning home from his petrol pump at Kumhari.
Two years later, police had arrested main accused Upendra Singh along with nine others. They were convicted in connection with the abduction case.
Since then, the accused Rama Singh was reportedly absconding. later, he contested and won the 2014 lok Sabha polls from Vaishali constituency in Bihar by defeating Raghuvansh Prasad Singh of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).