BJP MLCs seek arrest of RJD MLA’s guards

PATNA: BJP MLCs on Friday demanded arrest of the driver and security guards of RJD MLA Surendra Prasad Yadav on charges of assaulting businessman Dhirendra Kesri, who runs a ‘tilkut’ shop on Tekari Road in Gaya.
Raising the issue in the legislative council, leader of opposition Sushil Kumar Modi and other BJP MLCs shouted slogans against “return of jungle raj” in Bihar.“Police arrested Kesri on charges of obstructing official duty of the MLA’s two security guards. But the MLA had sent the bodyguards to buy ‘tilkut’ from Kesri’s shop, which is not an official duty of any security guard,” Modi said.
He said the ‘partisan’ police arrested the trader but spared the security guards and driver against whom too an FIR was lodged. Modi refuted the MLA’s allegation that boiling oil was poured on the MLA. “Local businessmen told me at Gaya on Thursday the MLA and Kesri during the scuffle slipped on the floor and a pot of used oil fell as a result of which the oil got sprinkled on both of them,” Modi told the House.
The shopkeeper, who retired from the Army after 18 years of service recently, was thrashed by police and he carried injury marks on his body even inside the jail, Modi said and alleged JD (U), RJD and Congress workers created a reign of terror in Gaya town to enforce a bandh two days back against the incident.
Modi said former chief minister Nitish Kumar had promised no compromise would be made with lawlessness but the RJD is using and abusing laws and law-enforcing agencies against its opponents.