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Patna,(BiharTimes): If the Bihar Police are to be believed controversial former MP and Congress leader Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav has slipped into Nepal.

The Supreme Court on August 5, 2010 directed the Bihar DGP and the CBI to arrest Pappu and file an affidavit within four weeks on the action taken in the matter. The Interpol has been alerted and a request sent to the police officials of the bordering districts of Nepal.

Pappu has been convicted of the murder of former CPM MLA Ajit Sarkar in 1998. The CBI, which probed the case, proved in the court that Pappu killed the CPM leader as he felt threat to his political career from him.

The Supreme Court recently cancelled his bail granted by the Patna high court.

Reports said that all the 40 district SPs of Bihar have been issued alert by the state police headquarters. DGP Neelmani has also sent Pappu's photographs to his counterparts in other states with a request to utilise the machinery at their disposal for nabbing Pappu. An alert has been issued to the country’s airports as well.

Media reports also said that the CBI too has activated its units spread over different parts of India.

Pappu's family members in Madhepura district have been kept under surveillance. Pappu’s wife Ranjita Ranjan, also a former MP, is a Congress leader. Pappu’s clout in the Congress party is rising. Lallan Kumar Yadav, the man elected as the state Youth Congress chief, is said to be his man.

The Supreme Court bench, it needs to be pointed out, expressed its displeasure with the Patna HC for granting bail to Pappu even after the apex court had made it clear, while rejecting his bail plea, that “no further application for bail will be considered in this case by any court.”

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