Court sends Pappu Yadav to 2-day custody, to hear bail plea tomorrow
Arrested on Friday after a warrant was issued against him in a case dating back to 1995.
A court in Patna on Saturday sent Independent MP Rajesh Ranjan, popularly known as Pappu Yadav, to two-day judicial custody after he was arrested in connection with a case dating back to 1995.
The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court said his bail plea will be heard on Monday, and he will be kept at Patna Medical College and Hospital for treatment till then.
Yadav was arrested on Friday night at his residence in Mandiri after a warrant was issued against him by the MP/MLA court in connection with a case lodged under Section 467 (forgery of documents) of the IPC. Yadav, who represents the Purnea Lok Sabha constituency, initially refused to accompany the police team, claiming they were carrying a warrant for the attachment of property but not for his arrest. He was, however, later taken into custody.
Advocate Shivnandan Bharti, who appeared in the court for Yadav, said, “He has been taken into judicial custody. However, instead of being sent to jail, it was ordered that he be kept at PMCH for treatment.”
Yadav was taken to PMCH, and then to Beur jail in the state capital for physical counting, from where he would be transported back to PMCH. The advocate claimed that Yadav had voluntarily offered himself for arrest, but a “false case was filed against him for obstructing the police’s work”.
“His bail was cancelled in July 2025. A non-bailable warrant has been out for him since then. If the police wanted, they could have arrested him that very day...They arrested him now because he was raising critical issues in Bihar,” Bharti claimed. Yadav has been quite vocal in criticising the government for its handling of Jehanabad NEET aspirant death case.
