The Janata Dal (United)’s Anant Kumar Singh, who is in jail in a murder case during the election campaign, is leading from the Mokama constituency by more than 12,000 votes as votes in the Bihar Assembly polls were being counted on Friday, according to Election Commission data .

As of 11.33 am, Singh had secured more than 37,000 votes. The Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Veena Devi was trailing with about 25,500 votes. Jan Suraaj candidate Priyadarshi Piyush had secured about 7,700 votes.

Ten of the thirty counting rounds had completed.

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.

Singh was arrested on November 1 along with two others – Manikant Thakur and Ranjeet Ram – in connection with the

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