It took the courts over three decades to sentence an 85-year-old man to three years in jail in an attempt-to-murder case in Biharโs Vaishali district. A report on the story behind the judgement and the area, which police say is overrun by country-made guns and illicit liquorย
The incident took place on Tuesday midnight on the banks of Penna river in Mudivarthipalem village of Indukurpet mandal
A habeas corpus petition has also been filed in the Madras High Court challenging his preventive detention under the Goondas Act