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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
A Darbhanga court has issued a warrant against cricketer-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Kirti Azad for ransacking a local electricity board office.
First Class Judicial Magistrate Jitendra Mishra issued the warrant against Azad, who represents Darbhanga [in Bihar] in the Lok Sabha and resides in Delhi.
Azad has been charged with forcibly entering the office of the general manager of the Mithilanchal Electricity Board on May 23, 2001 and ransacking it.
He was also accused of misbehaving with an engineer of the electricity department.
The court also issued an arrest warrant against Darbhanga BJP president Sanjay Sarawagi and five other BJP leaders for ignoring court summons.
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