Son of rape accused RJD MLA tries to destroy evidence, arrested

A court in Bihar Sharif on Friday put off for Saturday the hearing on absconding RJD MLA Raj Bhallabh Yadav's anticipatory bail application in connection with a case of alleged rape even as the police took his son into custody on the charge of destroying evidence.

Additional District Judge of Nalanda Rashmi Sikha put off the hearing on the anticipatory bail plea of the MLA on a request of his lawyer Sitaram Lord seeking time to read the police diary. The court had first heard the matter on February 17 but had posted it for hearing on Friday. The police, in the meantime, on Friday took Yadav's son Akhilesh into custody from Anisabad in Patna on the charge of destroying evidence in the case.

Akhilesh was being brought to Nalanda for questioning, Nalanda Superintendent of Police, Vivekanand said. Raj Bhallabh Yadav, RJD MLA from Nawada, who had served as a minister in the Rabri Devi ministry, is underground for the past one week after Patna Range Deputy Inspector General Shalin ordered his arrest in an alleged case of rape of a girl studying in class X.

In another development, Nalanda SP Vivekanand was shifted today to the police lines, apparently reflecting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's unhappiness over the police failing to arrest the RJD MLA so far.
Kumar Ashish has been made the new SP of Nalanda.

RJD had suspended Yadav after news of the MLA's alleged involvement in the rape case came to the fore.