Manoj Manzil, a Dalit leader and member of the Communist Part of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML), lost his membership in the Bihar Legislative Assembly this week following his conviction in a 2015 murder case. The 40-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court in Arrah along with 22 others for the killing of upper-caste Rajput resident Jay Prakash Singh (J P Singh).