Additional District and Sessions Judge of Siwan Ajay Kumar Srivastava, who had awarded life imprisonment to controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin in a murder case, has been transferred to Patna.
Sources close to the judge said he had requested for the transfer due to “family reasons” and not any “threat”. The transfer was “routine”, they added.
Srivastava has been posted in Patna in the same capacity. He had sentenced Shahabuddin to life term on 11 December 2015 after holding him guilty in the murder case of Rajiv Roshan, an eyewitness in the killing of his two brothers, using acid, at Siwan in 2004.