The Janata Dal (United)’s Anant Kumar Singh, who is in jail in a murder case filed during the election campaign, is leading in the Mokama constituency by more than 19,000 votes as votes in the Bihar Assembly polls were being counted on Friday.

As of 1.18 pm, Singh had secured 68,132 votes, according to Election Commission data. The Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Veena Devi was trailing with 48,845 votes. Jan Suraaj candidate Priyadarshi Piyush had secured about 11,067 votes.

Eighteen out of 30 rounds of counting had been completed.

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Singh was arrested on November 1 along with two others – Manikant Thakur and Ranjeet Ram – in connection with the killing of a Jan Suraaj worker after a clash between alleged supporters of the two parties a few days earlier. He is presently in judicial custody.

On November 2, a local court in Patna had sent Singh and his two associates to two weeks of judicial custody in connection with the case.

The worker, Dularchand Yadav, was found dead inside a vehicle in Tartar village in Patna on October 30. The area is part of the Mokama Assembly seat.

At the time, Piyush, the Jan Suraaj’s Mokama candidate, had told the police that he was on his way for election campaigning when he encountered the JD(U)’s convoy between Tartar and Basavanchak villages.

He added that “as the two convoys came face to face, an altercation broke out, followed by stone throwing and physical assault”.

Singh had said that he and his supporters were meeting voters when the Jan Suraaj convoy allegedly began shouting slogans against them, and attacking their vehicles. He claimed that several vehicles belonging to his supporters were vandalised.

Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma had earlier stated that Singh, Thakur and Ram were present at the site when the clash took place. Yadav’s post-mortem report showed that he died of cardiorespiratory failure, which occurred due to the shock caused by injuries to the heart and lungs by a hard and blunt object.

Four first information reports have been registered in connection with the clashes, including one pertaining to the violation of the model code of conduct.

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