Four get life term in 1975 L.N. Mishra murder case
New Delhi, Dec 18: Four followers of Hindu sect Anand Marg were Thursday sentenced to life by a court here for the 1975 murder of then railway minister Lalit Narayan Mishra. District Judge Vinod Goel, who passed the order, had Dec 8 held the four guilty of killing Mishra. Timeline of the 1975 murder case of then railway minister Lalit Narayan Mishra: June 2, 1975: Mishra goes to Samastipur to inaugurate the Samastipur-Muzaffarpur broad gauge railway line. A bomb explosion on the dais seriously injures him. June 3, 1975: Mishra dies at the railway hospital in Danapur. June 9, 1975: Case handed over to Central Bureau of Investigation. Nov 1, 1975: CBI files chargesheet in the case in a Bihar court. December 1979: The trial transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court. 1981: Charges framed against the accused. Aug 17, 2012: The Supreme Court directs trial court to conclude the trial by holding daily hearing. Sep 12, 2012: Final arguments begin. Sep 12, 2014: Delhi Court reserves its verdict. Nov 10, 2014: Court defers verdict to Dec 8. Dec 8, 2014: Court convicts four men. Dec 18, 2014: Court gives life term to four.