JD(U) MLA sent to jail

A local court has remanded

influential JD(U) MLA Anant Singh to 14 days' judicial custody in connection with a kidnapping case at Bihta.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Danapur Tribhuvan Nath late last night remanded Singh to 14-day judicial custody, in the case at Bihta in rural Patna in last year.

As Singh, MLA from Mokamah in Patna district, was taken to Beur jail amid tight police security a little after midnight, his supporters stopped a few trains at Barh and Mokamah stations and blocked roads at many places in Barh.