New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday was urged to order the charges and trial be quashed in the case of assassination of the then railway minister L.N. Mishra in a bomb attack 37 years ago in Bihar.
The plea was made by accused Ranjan Dwivedi, 64. He said the case had travelled to 22 different judges, witnessed the death of 31 material witnesses and four defence counsel in the last three decades.
The case relates to the throwing of a bomb at the dais where the minister was addressing a public meeting in Samastipur Jan 2, 1975. Mishra, injured in the attack, died in hospital the next day.
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