RANCHI: Kolebira
MLA Enos Ekka was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment for killing para-teacher (temporary teacher)
Manoj Kumar in November 2014. Ekka was convicted in the case on Saturday.
Dhanesh Badaik, an operative of banned left-wing extremist group PLFI, was also sentenced to life in jail with Ekka.
The 49-year-old lawmaker will become the fourth MLA in
Jharkhand to lose membership of the assembly for being convicted in a criminal case. Ekka, who served as a minister in the
Madhu Koda and
Arjun Munda governments, has been in jail since his arrest in 2014. He contested and won the assembly elections that year from prison.