Former Agriculture Minister Yogendra Sao has been sent to Jai Prakash Narayan central jail in judicial custody for one day by the SDJM court on Wednesday in an extortion case lodged at Giddi police station.
Sao will be produced before the court on Thursday along with seven other accused who are already locked in the Central Jail. The court will decide further extension of the judicial custody of Sao after hearing of the case.
Earlier, the CID team led by ASP Anuranjan Kispotta reached Hazaribagh court campus along with Sao from the RIMS cottage at 9.50 am on Wednesday. After keeping Sao in the court’s lockup room, he produced all the papers in court of SDJM Garima Mishra. The court called Sao at about 11 am and then sent him in judicial custody for one day.
Sao, arrested from East Delhi on October 4 on forming and running extortion gang, is facing as many as seven criminal cases, lodged at various police stations in Hazaribagh.
Sao, a former Congress MlA, told the court that he was suffering with damaged ear diaphragm, eyesight problem and diabetes and he had been treated for the same in Delhi. He pleaded for better treatment. SDJM Mishra heard him patiently and, after going through the reports of RIMS Ranchi, said that he could get medical treatment in the jail hospital as he has got no major problem. Sao has been kept in high security zone, Anda cell no. 7.