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Former Bihar minister, who tortured trucker, still at large

Our Correspondent in Patna

Even a month after news of the torture and illegal confinement of dalit truck driver Dinanath Baitha broke, the man responsible, sacked Bihar minister Lalit Yadav, is still at large.

The Patna high court Tuesday rejected his anticipatory bail plea. Earlier a special court looking after the atrocities on scheduled castes and tribes had rejected a similar plea and the police seized Yadav's ancestral property.

The police seem clueless about his whereabouts. A couple of weeks back a police official said that he was neither in Patna nor in his hometown, Darbhanga.

Senior police officials are tightlipped about the delay. The only man punished so far is Yadav's bodyguard, who has been suspended.

There is a likelihood that the former minister and his relatives, also accused in the case, might have crossed over to Nepal.

Though the police deny that there is any political pressure, the manner in which they have acted so far has raised several questions.

For example, they have only attached Yadav's ancestral house in village Manigachi in Darbhanga district. His properties in Darbhanga town and Patna have not yet been touched.

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