Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor has called for the immediate resignation and arrest of Bihar Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary for allegedly providing false age details to secure relief in a 1995 murder case. He urged CM Nitish Kumar to take swift action or escalate the matter to the Governor.
PATNA: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Monday demanded the immediate resignation of Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Samrat Choudhary, saying the leader secured relief in a 1995 murder case by providing false information to the court about his age.
Talking to media persons, Kishor said,
“Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should immediately drop Choudhary from his cabinet and get him arrested for being a murder accused in the killing of six persons and misleading the court by providing wrong information about his real age.”
He added,
“If CM does not take action, a delegation of the party will meet the Governor to demand Choudhary’s resignation and his arrest,” and further questioned, “How could a man remain on the constitutional post after being a murder accused?”
Samrat Choudhary, also known as Rakesh Kumar or Rakesh Kumar Maurya, was booked in connection with the murder of six persons under the Tarapur police station limits in Munger district in 1995.
He later secured relief from the court by claiming that he was underage at the time of the incident.
Kishor pointed out that Choudhary had told the Supreme Court that he was only 15 years old when the incident happened.
As a result, he was released on the plea of being a juvenile. This fact remained largely unknown for years. However, in his affidavit for the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, Choudhary mentioned his age as 51 years.
Kishor said,
“If Choudhary’s affidavit is to be believed, he was 26 years old in 1995 when he was named as an accused in the murder case.”
He also stated,
“The scrutiny of the documents showed that Samrat Choudhary declared himself a minor to get benefits under the Juvenile Justice Act. He was released from the court based on wrong information provided by the accused,”
highlighting that Choudhary had submitted a certificate issued by the Bihar School Examination Board as proof of his age.
Prashant Kishor also raised questions about Choudhary’s alleged involvement in the Shilpi-Gautam murder case in Patna during the RJD rule. He asked,
“I would like to know from him where he was quizzed by CBI or his blood samples were collected for test.”
Expressing his surprise over Choudhary’s proximity to senior leaders, Kishor said,
“The man who should have been behind the bar is moving with the union home minister in the same vehicle,”
referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Bihar.
This controversy has once again put Samrat Choudhary’s political career under the spotlight, raising serious legal and ethical questions regarding his eligibility to hold a high constitutional post while being linked to a murder case and allegedly providing false information to the court.
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