A Delhi court would on Saturday pronounce the judgement in a 2003 murder case in which former Uttar Pradesh MLA Udai Bhan Singh and five others are facing trial.
Special CBI Judge Parveen Singh, who was scheduled to pass the verdict, deferred it saying the order was not yet ready.
The court issued production warrant against accused Sandeep Singh alias Pintoo, who is lodged in Central Jail at Varanasi, for August 22 after it was informed that he has not been produced by the prison authorities today.
The court had earlier framed charges against the accused under various provisions of IPC dealing with murder, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and intimidation.
According to CBI, the accused had allegedly conspired and hired two criminals to kill Rakesh Pandey, an eye-witness in a triple murder case, on the morning of February 17, 2003 at Gopiganj police station at Sant Ravidas Nagar district near Varanasi.
Pandey, who had refused to accept Rs five lakh for not deposing in the triple murder case, was threatened and later shot dead allegedly at the behest of Udai Bhan, CBI had said, adding that two others had also sustained bullet injuries during the incident.
Initially, the then MLA and nine others were arraigned as accused. However, three accused -- Santosh Kumar Singh, Vinod Kumar Singh and Bashir Khan, died during the pendency of trial and co-accused, Kallu, was declared a proclaimed offender.
Besides the former MLA, the other accused facing trial in the case are Sandeep, Ashok Mishra, Raj Nath Mishra, Mabud Khan and Vishal Singh.
The case was transferred to the national capital from Uttar Pradesh by the Supreme Court on March 28, 2008, on the ground that a fair trial was not possible in the state against the accused leader.
