As the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are over, Delhi Police have re-issued notices to the four parliamentarians whose names were mentioned by a suspect in the human trafficking case.
The lawmakers -- Ramswarup Koli (BJP) and Mohammad Tahir Khan, Ashok Kumar Rawat and Mitrasen Yadav (all BSP) -- have been asked to appear before the police by May 14.
Initially, the police had issued notices to them on April 23 but the lawmakers expressed their inability to adhere it, citing assembly polls in UP.
A BJP parliamentarian and two BSP parliamentarians communicated to the police about their inability to come over to Delhi on Saturday for questioning but the fourth lawmaker, also belonging to BSP, has not replied to the notice so far.
The police issued notices to them after their names cropped up during the interrogation of Sunder Lal Yadav, an alleged conduit in the high profile case.
Police decided to grill the four lawmakers after going through the travel details provided by the Foreign Residents Registration Office. The MPs have also been asked to bring their passports as police wants to "physically verify" the travel document.
The police have so far arrested six persons, including Katara and his aide Rajender Kumar Gampa in the case after the Dahod parliamentarian was nabbed at the international airport in New Delhi last month while trying to smuggle a woman and a teenaged boy out of the country on his wife and son's passports.