In A joint operation, a team of the Jharkhand Police?s CID and the Delhi Police finally arrested former Jharkhand agriculture minister Yogendra Sao from the national capital on Saturday, nearly a month after he resigned and went absconding following allegations that he formed a criminal gang.
A Delhi court on Sunday granted the Jharkhand Police a transit remand of three days for Sao.
A debutant MLA of the Congress, who represents the mineral-rich Barkagaon in the Assembly, 50-year-old Sao had resigned on September 12 following sustained pressure from within the party. A district court in Hazaribagh had issued a non-bailable warrant against him on September.
The CID had been claiming that the former minister could not be found even though he gave a series of interviews to Jharkhand-based media A statement by the Jharkhand Police said Sao was arrested from the house of a Panna Lal Mahto in a JJ Colony in Delhi?s Shakurpur.
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