Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : Police on July 1, 2020, arrested three miscreants with firearms and live cartridges and sent them to jail for alleged making attempt to kill RJD MLA from Barhara assembly constituency Saroj Yadav in Bhojpur District. Police also seized a Scorpio with BJP flag.
RJD MLA Saroj Yadav said that marriage ceremony of his niece was being solemnised at Keshopur under Barahara police station in Bhojpur districton June 30, 2020, late evening, when around 13 armed miscreants came to his house and queried about him. Failing to locate him, they reached the marriage venue and started firing indiscriminately, the RJD MLA said. His bodyguards caught two of them and handed over to police when they reached there while others escaped leaving their Scorpio behind, the MLA added.
The arrested miscreants were identified as Gorakh Rai of Bhadeya under Ara Muffassil police station and Ankit Singh of Karisath under Gajrajganj police outpost in Bhojpur district. Saroj Yadav, MLA, said that Chandan Singh of Karisath under Gajrajganj police outpost had come on July 1 morning allegedly at the behest of a contractor Janardan Yadav to take the Scorpio but the villagers caught him and handed him over to police. Chadan Singh confessed before police that they had come to eliminate the MLA.
Saroj Yadav held the the Bhojpur district administration and State government for the incident claiming that someone was hatching plan to kill him but police appear reluctant to arrest them.