Pappu Yadav arrested by CBI in Gurgaon
Former RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan, alias Pappu Yadav, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in an MLA’s murder case and was out on bail for the last three months, was arrested by the CBI from a private hospital in Gurgaon on the outskirts of the capital.
A CBI spokesperson said that Yadav was arrested last night with the active cooperation of the Gurgaon police.
A four-time Lok Sabha MP, Yadav was sentenced to life imprisonment along with two others, Rajan Tiwari and Anil Kumar Yadav on February 14, 2008 for the murder of Ajit Sarkar, a CPI(M) MLA, 12 years ago.
He was produced on Monday in a Gurgaon court which granted transit remand for producing him before the competent court at Patna, the spokesperson said.
Yadav’s arrest was imminent after the Supreme Court struck down his bail order issued by the Patna high court and directed him to surrender forthwith.
The top court bench was furious with the Patna high court for granting bail to Yadav despite its 2007 direction that no bail should be granted to him by any court in the country.
The CBI had approached the top court on March 26 challenging the Patna high court’s February 18, 2009, order granting bail to Yadav who is undergoing life imprisonment in the murder case.
Special CBI judge B.M. Srivastava had on February 14, 2008, pronounced Yadav, former Independent MLA Rajan Tiwari and Anil Yadav guilty of the murder of Sarkar and awarded them jail terms for life.
The case was taken over by the CBI on the request of the Bihar government. Yadav, according to the agency, had political rivalry with Sarkar due to which he hatched a conspiracy with co-accused Choudhary, alias Mamaji, Tiwari, Amar Yadav and Anil Yadav to eliminate Sarkar.
Choudhary, Tiwari, Amar and Anil Ajit Sarkar had on June 14, 1998 shot him dead. —PTI
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