Absconding Bihar, India, lawmaker surrenders in Delhi court
Police had recovered an assault rifle and ammunition from his residence
Patna: A Bihar lawmaker who had been absconding for about a week in a criminal case surrendered in a court in Delhi on Friday despite all attempts by the state police to arrest him.
Anant Singh, who was elected as an Independent from Bihar’s Mokama assembly seat, had been absconding since August 17 after police recovered an AK-47 assault rifle, hand grenades and live cartridges from his residence during a raid at his ancestral village in Patna district.
Subsequently, the police registered a case under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against the muscle-flexing lawmaker. This made his arrest imminent. However, by the time the police could complete the legal formalities to arrest him, he went into hiding.
The police later declared him as an absconder, issued a lookout notice against him and also formed 11 teams to arrest him.
What was more embarrassing for the cops was that while they continued raiding places to catch him, the lawmaker remained busy releasing one video after another to say he was not absconding and would surrender in the court soon. He alleged he had no faith in the police of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and charged them with acting at the behest of the ruling party leaders.
He released his third video on Thursday night saying he would surrender before the court, and not before the police. However, before the police could act, the Anan Singh before a metropolitan magistrate in Delhi’s Saket court.
“We are trying to bring the lawmaker to Patna on transit remand,” Patna’s district superintendent of police (rural) Kantesh Kumar Mishra said Friday.
The lawmaker has alleged the ruling party leaders were trying to implicate him in fake cases ever since his wife contested the Lok Sabha elections against Janata Dal United (JD-U) leader Lalan Singh in the recently held polls. His wife lost the polls with a small margin.
“The recovery of AK 47 rifle is a part of political conspiracy hatched by my rivals. They hatched the conspiracy ever since my wife contested the LS elections against Lalan Singh,” Singh has alleged in one of the videos released by him.