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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
The Bihar police is looking for Food and Civil Supplies Minister Purnmasi Ram for abducting and brutally beating up a Communist Party of India, Marxist-Leninist, leader in west Champaran district, a police official said on Wednesday
The Bagha police have registered a FIR against Ram for the brutal assault on Dayanand Dwivedi.
Ram assaulted Dwivedi in public view on Monday.
Police sources said that Ram assaulted Dwivedi for filing a Public Interest Litigation in the Patna high court alleging a mammoth scam in the PDS red card scheme
CPI-ML leader Ranjit accused the police of arresting Dwivedi, and not Ram, who was 'allowed to go underground'.
Several CPI-ML leaders also said that Ram is 'instructing' the police to suppress the case
Last week another CPI-ML leader, Nanjee Ram, filed a Rs 61 billion PDS fraud case against the minister in Bagha court.
Dwivedi, at that time, had said he would be filing a special leave petition on the issue in the Supreme Court soon.
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