51 Years After the Samastipur Blast, the Battle to Discover LN Mishra’s ‘Actual’ Killers Reaches a Breaking Level in Delhi Excessive Court docket
3 min learnPatnaUp to date: Mar 28, 2026 05:43 PM IST
After the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) lately submitted its standing report on the 1975 LN Mishra assassination case — recommending in opposition to a re-investigation — all eyes are actually on the Delhi Excessive Court docket.
The courtroom is scheduled to listen to the household’s counter-arguments on Might 18 earlier than taking a closing name on whether or not to order a re-investigation or shut the matter, which has lingered for over 51 years. Mishra was Union railway minister when he was assassinated in Samastipur in January 1975. A robust Congress chief, he was additionally the elder brother of former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra.
On March 25, the CBI, which led the unique probe, submitted its standing report earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket’s Division Bench of Justice Pratibha M. Singh and Justice Madhu Jain. The courtroom famous: “It’s submitted on behalf of the CBI that the CBI doesn’t help the prayer for re-investigation. The standing report of the CBI is taken on file. The Appellants as additionally the relations of the sufferer are free to make their submissions in respect thereof…. On behalf of the relations of the sufferer, the contents of the standing report filed by the CBI are objected to”.
Vaibhav Mishra, counsel and grandson of LN Mishra, instructed The Indian Categorical: “Our arguments can be drawn closely from the Justice V.M. Tarkunde Report (1979), the Bihar Police Report (1978), and preliminary confession statements made earlier than the Justice of the Peace in Samastipur, which revealed main political names concerned within the assassination. We’re additionally counting on an Indian Categorical investigation.”
Mishra added that the report ‘Who Killed L.N. Mishra? An Indian Categorical Investigation’ by Arun Shourie in 1979, provides a powerful counter-argument, noting that “the mixed findings of the above contravene what the CBI had discovered.”
The matter is being heard by the Delhi Excessive Court docket following a plea by Vaibhav Mishra, who has expressed dissatisfaction with the CBI probe and the following 2014 judgment through which 4 Anandamargis had been convicted.
In February this yr, the Delhi Excessive Court docket directed the CBI to submit an in depth affidavit on the plea to re-open the five-decade-old case, specifying that the standing report be filed by an officer not beneath the rank of Joint Director.
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LN Mishra was killed together with MLC Surya Narayan Jha and railway clerk Ram Kishore Prasad within the 1975 grenade assault. Whereas the CBI probe led to the conviction of 4 Ananda Margis in 2014, Vaibhav Mishra argued that they had been framed and {that a} bigger conspiracy was at play. Two stories — Tarkunde and Sahai — level to a deep-rooted conspiracy that the CBI has but to handle, prompting requires a recent probe.
Moreover, former Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey has filed an software within the Delhi Excessive Court docket in search of re-opening of the case.
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