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Patna,(BiharTimes): Justice Shailesh Kumar Sinha of the Patna high court on Friday directed the outgoing Bihar cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh to surrender before an Aurangabad court in a case related to inflammatory speech delivered by him at Madanpur block of the district after the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992. Ramadhar was a junior office-bearer of the Aurangabad district unit of the BJP then. |
The judge directed the subordinate court to dispose of immediately any application filed by Singh in this regard after going through all the facts of the case.
Singh had moved the high court seeking quashing of his absconder status as declared by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad on December 8, 1995. Singh did so after a section of media highlighted the news that Singh is an absconder.
Sources said that the issue involving his resignation has virtually nothing to do with the speech he made about 19 years back. It has more to do with the politics of BISCOMAUN. It is said that Ramadhar, as a cooperative minister, wanted to interfere in the affairs of the BISCOMAUN. His opponents, who were aware of a pending case against him got the news planted in the media.
When a national television channel and a newspaper highlighted the news the opposition was bound to raise the demand of his removal. In this way Singh had to pay the price for some very different reason, the sources added.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said law would take its own course in the matter. He refused to divulge much but only blamed the then Lalu Yadav government for not arresting him earlier.
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