Justice Delay But Not Denied: Bharatpur Royal Family Head Raja Maan Singh Encounter Case, 1985 Vishu Raj LAW CRITIQUE Sat, Jul 25, 2020, at ,01:11 PM Finally, the verdict comes! Mathura Court on Wednesday Sentenced 11 Policemen including Deputy SP to Life Imprisonment for the Murder of Raja Maan Singh. The convicts were found guilty under sections 189, 149 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code. Some of the accused had also died by the time the verdict was announced, 35 years after the incident. Three policemen, who were accused of forging the general diary entries and facing charges under Section 218 of the IPC, however, had been acquitted. The Court also directs the Rajasthan government to compensate the families of the three victims and the four injured persons. About of Raja Maan Singh: Raja Maan Singh was born on 5 December 1921 in Bharatpur Princely State in the family of Maharaja Kishan Singh. He was Independent MLA from 1952 to 1984. Political History of Raja Maan Singh: Raja Maan Singh became a minister of the princely state of Bharatpur in 1946–47. In 1947, opposed to the flag-off of the princely state and got rid of gels to hoist the national flag. In 1952, for the first time, he was elected MLA independently in the Legislative Assembly. And he won continuously as Independent MLA for the seventh consecutive assembly from 1952-1984. Raja Maan Singh Encounter Case: The Mathura court had been hearing the case for the last two decades. The case was first heard in a Rajasthan court until the Supreme Court ordered it to be shifted to Mathura. It took more than 1,700 hearings for a judgment to be pronounced. Raja Man Singh was killed in Deeg in Bharatpur on February 21, 1985, in the heat of Vidhan Sabha Assembly elections a day after he rammed his car in the helicopter of then Rajasthan chief minister Shiv Charan Mathur. Two of his associates were also killed in the police shootout. Raja Maan Singh was killed in a police encounter and the Deputy Superintendent Kahn Singh Bhati, under whose orders the policemen fired, was fired from service in the interest of public safety. After a massive turnout at the funeral of Singh, who was a seven-time MLA, Congress CM Shiv Charan Mathur had to tender his resignation.