Team News Riveting
Patna, May 11
The Patna police on Tuesday arrested former parliamentarian and Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) president Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav for flouting lockdown norms that had been effective in the city following a surge in the COVID-19 cases.
The security personnel in large numbers led by a Deputy Superintendent of Police today morning reached Yadav’s official residence Mandiri and arrested him. Initially, he was locked into house arrest but later he was taken to police station at Gandhi Maidan.
“We have arrested him on the charge of violating lockdown in Patna. He has visited several hospitals during the lockdown which is attributed to violation of rules under Epidemic Diseases Act,” an officer of Gandhi Maidan police station said.
Besides this, Saran police also registered an FIR against Pappu Yadav for damaging the government properties on the day he raided the Amnaur office of Rajiv Pratap Rudy and exposed the ‘hoarding’ of 39 ambulances inside the campus. Yadav claims that the land belongs to Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
The opposition parties castigated the Bihar government for the arrest of Pappu Yadav and alleged that the state government was acting in a vengeful manner against JAP chief for exposing Rudy who kept 39 ambulances in his office campus.
Pappu Yadav had said that these ambulances would have been used in a better way at the time of the pandemic.
“The people of Bihar are struggling for ambulances. They are forced to pay Rs 7,000 to Rs 25,000 for taking patients and dead bodies. Many patients and dead bodies have been transported in carts and bicycles in several districts of Bihar. On the other hand, Rudy kept 39 ambulances in his office premises. The ambulances were purchased through MP fund in 2019,” Yadav had said.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy had clarified that the ambulances were stationed in absence of drivers and he had written a letter to the District Magistrate in this connection.
