Former Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav is unlikely to present in person tomorrow before the special CBI judge tomorrow on health grounds while former Union minister for rural development and employment Chandradeo Prasad Verma surrendered before the designated CBI court after his anticipatory bail application was rejected by the apex court for his alleged involvement in the Rs 950 crore fodder scam.
After his surrender, CBI special judge S K Lal rejected his regular bail application and remanded him to judicial custody till July 26 in three other scam related cases.
(RC 38A/96, RC 42A/96 and RC 64A/96). ......ordered that Verma should be presented before the court alongwith former chief minister on August 20 for his involvement in case No RC 20A/96 and two of his former cabinet colleagues. In all the four cases, the former union minister who was also the minister in charge of the AHD department in the state and is a co-accused alongwith Yadav and two former AHD ministers, Bhola Ram rpt Ram Toofani and Vidya Sagar Nishad.
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Yadav who is unlikely to appear in person before the special CBI court following his indisposition, we remanded to judicial custody in three other conspiracy angle cases till August 13. Yadav could not be presented before the special judge on August six in the garb of his illness. A three member team of Doctors, comprising Naresh Trehan, A K Seth and H S Rissan after examining Yadav at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), Patna, belonging to famous Escorts Heart Hospital, Delhi, have advised complete bed rest to Yadav for three weeks as the intra - venticular septum of Yadav has become hypo- Kynatic and the reports during the course of investigation suggest that the former Bihar chief minister suffered heart injury the day he complained of pain in the left side. Yadav should take complete bed rest for three weeks in order to stabilise his condition so that other relevant tests could be done to ascertain the damage done to his heart. However, Yadav, has now been shifted to regular ward from the intensive care unit as his condition had improved considerably. The doctors attending to Yadav still mentioned....... that the condition of former chief minister had not reached the level so as to present him before the CBI court.
Bihar director general of police, S K Saxena, today submitted before the special CBI court that any precipitative action on the part of the state machinery to execute the arrest warrant against Yadav might have led to violence and led to police firing and killing of large number of innocent people of Bihar.
In his written reply to the designated CBI court, the DGP maintained that any sudden action might have led to violence. The report on behalf of the DGP was filed by the public prosecutor, Suraj Deo Yadav, who was asked to submit a detailed report following complaint by the CBI that state police did not cooperate with the investigating agency in executing the non-bailable arrest warrant issued against the former Bihar chief minister for his alleged involvement in the multi crore fodder scam. The report submitted on behalf of the DGP maintained that thought the Bihar police machinery extended all possible to the investigating agency the prevailing situation on the night of July 29 and in the morning of July 30 prevented the arrest of Yadav.
The DGPs report says that following the rejection of anticipatory bail application of Yadav by the apex court the state police got the information from the intelligence personnel that a large number of media people and party workers had collected inside chief ministers premises expecting his possible arrest.
The report said that when the DGP reached the residence of the chief minister during wee hours on July 30 gathered from the officials including the district magistrate, senior police officials that if the crowd collected at the residence of the chief minister was forcibly driven out there was possibility breach of peace. The DGP in its report claimed that the CBI SP, V.S. Kaumudi, had asked for deployment of RAF and para military forces at about six am on July 30 to execute the arrest warrant barely few hours before the former CM was to surrender before the CBI court. In case we had taken stern action to evict the emotionally surcharged Laloo supporters from his residence, a possible police firing and killing of several innocent persons can not be ruled out., the DGP report said.