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Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi's brother Sadhu Yadav, MLA, surrendered before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Gopalganj district on Tuesday. He was later granted bail on two bonds of Rs 8,000 each.
The court summoned him in a case related to last year's assembly election. Sadhu, who represents Gopalganj assembly seat, along with five others were charged with forcibly procuring the release of some Rashtriya Janata Dal workers from the Town police station on polling day, February 21, 2000.
The activists had been arrested on charges of poll irregularities, but the MLA stormed into the police station and compelled the policemen to release them.
Meanwhile, the district and sessions judge of Madhepura, Harishchandra Singh, on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Union Civil Aviation Minister Sharad Yadav in a criminal case.
Amarendra Kumar, a voter of Madhepura parliamentary constituency, had in an FIR lodged with the Madhepura police station on October 30, 1999 accused Yadav of engaging in a scuffle and rigging at a polling centre. Yadav won the seat by defeating RJD supremo Laloo Yadav by a margin of 32,000 votes amidst charges of large-scale rigging and violence by the Janata Dal (U).
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