Madhepura (Bihar): Former MP and JAP chief Pappu Yadav who was apprehended for flouting Covid norms from his Patna residence on Tuesday was then held in connection with a 32-yr old kidnapping case. Earlier, the court had issued a non-bailable warrant against the JAP chief for his non-appearance in the trial.
It is in this context that Pappu Yadav has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days in the 32-year-old case by the Madhepura court. Hearing the case through video conferencing, the judicial magistrate in charge ordered that the former MP be sent to Virpur jail.
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Earlier on Tuesday, JAP supporters tried to disrupt the convoy of police carrying Pappu Yadav on the National Highway in Hajipur by placing barricades. Some supporters of Yadav even lay in front of the police vehicles, while many others tried to climb atop the police car.
It was after much effort by the police that the convoy moved forward.
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After his arrest, Pappu Yadav said that the action taken on him was due to the pressure from private medical mafias of Bihar and many ministers.
During the court hearing, Pappu Yadav made an emotional appeal to the judge asking the latter to issue instructions that he is sent to a hospital instead of jail citing ill health.
He added that he be admitted to either the District Hospital or to the Jananayak Karpuri Thakur Medical College and Hospital in Madhepura.
However, the court ordered that he be sent to Virpur jail in Supaul for 14 days in judicial custody.
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It is known that Police had registered an FIR against former Madhepura MP and Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) president Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on Saturday. Yadav had raided a place where over two dozen Ambulances purchased from the fund of Saran Lok Sabha member Rajiv Pratap Rudy were parked triggering a controversy.
The ambulances had Rudy's name and were bought using funds from the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).
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Accompanied by his supporters, Yadav had visited the place where the ambulances were parked and after a tiff with the security men went inside and removed tarpaulin cover from the stationary ambulances.
The former MP came down heavily on Rudy for not utilizing the ambulances when COVID patients were dying for want of emergency services.
