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Life convicts getting their sentence commuted is not news usually but the Bihar law department’s April 24 release order for 27 lifers who have completed 14 years behind bars has set off a furious debate

- Amitabh Srivastava

And this is because of one name on the list—ex-MP and bahubali Anand Mohan Singh. In jail for the past 15 years after his conviction in the 1994 murder of then Gopalganj district magistrate G. Krishnaiah, Mohan has always been a polarising figure, revered by his Rajput castemen but despised by many others. Mohan was accused of inciting the mob that attacked and killed the 1985 batch IAS officer.