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After evading arrest for about three weeks, former Bihar minister Sanjay Singh was on Wednesday picked up by the police from his ancestral house in Hathiyawan village in Sheikhpura district.
Four of his relatives, accused in the killing of nine Rashtriya Janata Dal activists, were also arrested.
Sanjay Singh, who was a minister in Rabri Devi's coalition government when the incident occurred, had resigned after he and his father, Congress MP Rajo Singh, were implicated in the case along with seven of their relatives. One of them has already surrendered.
Rajo Singh is still at large.
Munger district and sessions judge Kanhiya Prasad Verma had on Tuesday last already rejected Rajo Singh's plea for anticipatory bail.
According to Sheikhpura Superintendent of Police Baldev Prasad, a local court remanded Sanjay and his accomplices to the judicial custody till January 21. They have been sent to the Sheikhpura sub-jail, he added.
The nine RJD activists were said to be supporters of another Congress minister from the district Ashok Chaudhary, a political rival of Rajo Singh and Sanjay Singh.
The activists were returning from a meeting, which had witnessed a heated exchange of words between Rajo Singh and Anil Mahto, a village head, when they were attacked. Mahto was among those killed.
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