Krishnanand Rai

With ample farm land around rich and fertile gangetic basin, the primary source of earning and livelihood for the family was agriculture.

This was the time when he came across people like Manoj Sinha (Lok Sabha MP), Narendra Singh (Professor of BHU) who later became his close friends.

Due to financial constraints and series of untoward incidents at college, he ended up dropping out of school and sought work.

He kept his aspirations of becoming a politician alive and represented Mohammadabad in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, becoming a member of the Purvanchal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

[1] He had been made aware of a death threat by Special Task Force officers, who warned him of hired killers at the residence of a local politician and gangster Mukhtar Ansari.

Finding no remedy, the wife of Krishnanand Rai filed a writ in Allahabad High Court demanding a CBI inquiry into the killing of her husband.

The writ petition in Allahabad High Court by Alka Rai provides detail of thirty criminal cases against the Ansari brothers.

[4] Another person alleged to have been involved in the murder - Afroz, also known as Chunnu Pehlwan - was arrested in June 2014 and placed in judicial custody.