PATNA: Madhepura MP and Jan Adhikar Party-Loktantrik (JAP-L) patron Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav was on Monday arrested by Patna police after a high-voltage drama that continued for more than four hours at the parliamentarian's residence in Mandiri locality of the state capital.Police said that Pappu was arrested in connection with an old case related to causing nuisance near the state capital's Kargil Chowk on January 24. The police decided to arrest the MP who was expelled from RJD in May 2015 on Monday afternoon when supporters of Pappu Yadav clashed with police during a protest march towards the state assembly earlier in the day. As the MP, surrounded by his hundreds of die-hard supporters, declared that he would not allow police to arrest him without a warrant of arrest, the police personnel besieged his house. As the action intensified, Pappu left the protest march and reached the office of a local TV channel where he claimed that more than 100 JAP workers were badly beaten up by police. When the police reached the channel office to arrest him, Pappu went to his residence in Mandiri area.

Source: Times of India March 27, 2017 17:15 UTC