Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, September 20
A Patna court has directed the police to lodge an FIR against six politicians including RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, his MP sister Misa Bharti on the complaint of a person for allegedly duping Rs 5 crore.
The complainant said he had given Rs 5 crore with the promise of a Lok Sabha ticket in the 2019 general elections.
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna, Vijay Kishore Singh passed the order on September 16 on the petition of Sanjiv Kumar Singh, who claimed he had sought a party ticket from the RJD to contest from the Bhagalpur seat. Singh was associated with the Congress party.
Besides Tejashwi, the complaint had named his elder sister and Rajya Sabha member Misa Bharti, besides state Congress president Madan Mohan Jha, late BPCC chief Sadanand Singh and his son Shubhanand Mukesh, as also Congress spokesperson Rajesh Rathore.
The court has directed the Senior SP of Patna to lodge an FIR on the complaint at the Kotwali police station and institute an investigation.
RJD spokesman and former MLA Mrityunjay Tiwari said, “We are aghast that such a complaint has been entertained. The complainant claims he was seeking a Congress ticket and he has named leaders of our party as accused.”
The Congress has been an old ally of the RJD and the two parties had fought the Lok Sabha elections in alliance. RJD’s sitting MP Shailesh Kumar alias Bulo Mandal had contested the Bhagalpur seat and lost to JD(U)’s Ajay Mandal.
