The RJD Lok Sabha member surrendered before Special Vigilance court in Patna in connection with multi-crore flood relief scam.
PATNA: The law has finally caught up with Sadhu Yadav, brother-in-law of railway minister Lalu Yadav. Wanted by the Investigation Bureau of the Bihar Vigilance department in the multi-crore flood-relief forgery scam, Sadhu, a Member of Parliament( Lok Sabha) surrendered in the court of Special Judge, Vigilance here on Monday. The Court rejected his bail plea and sent him to Beur jail for two weeks. Immediately after the bail was dismissed, the Vigilance prosecutor demanded that Sadhu be remanded in police custody for five days for custodial interrogation. However, the court allowed only two days in police custody for interrogation.
Sadhu was taken into custody and sent to Beur Jail on the outskirts of the state capital. This is the same prison where his brother-in-law and RJD chief Lalu Yadav was incarcerated four times for his involvement in the Fodder scam cases. The Vigilance would take him on police remand and interrogate further in a day or two.
Sadhu had no option but to surrender in the Trial court as his anticipatory bail petition was turned down by the Supreme Court, a few days earlier. The investigators of the flood-relief scam cases (Vigilance) had also procured warrant to attach his property as he was playing a hide-and-seek game for quite some.
Sleuths have traced a bank transaction of Rs 6 lakh between Sadhu Yadav and the main accused in case, Santosh Jha. During interrogation, Sadhu defended the graft charge against him saying that the money paid to him through a bank cheque was actually the payment of a second-hand car which he had sold to Jha's father. Sadhu also furnished documents signed by the District Transport Officer, Patna to vindicate his defence that he had actually sold a second-hand car to Jha's father. Interestingly, the papers said that Sadhu Yadav had bought the said car from its original owner for Rs one lakh. But he sold the same to Jha's father for Rs 6 lakh.
Further investigation revealed that the car Sadhu claimed to have purchased and re-sold to Jha was not owned by him at all.
The actual owner was a man from Delhi who had taken a loan from ICICI bank to purchase the vehicle. Sadhu had actually forged all the papers in conspiracy with the then DTO of Patna.
Sleuths have lodged another case of forgery and cheating against Yadav and a clerk in the Transport department. Both of them are arrested.
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