The trail led unambiguously to Soren: the guileless are no less guilty. The legal denouement was dramatic enough, and far from glorious. Soren, called 'Dishom Guru' or Great Leader in Jharkhand, made dubious history as the first sitting Union minister to be given a life sentence—for conspiring to murder his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha in 1994.
Soren, a six-time MP who subsequently resigned as coal minister, will surely go in appeal. Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan...

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