Chief judicial magistrate court has remanded a former Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh, Yashveer Singh and a Samajwadi Party leader Raffi Saffi to 14 days’ judicial custody on Friday in connection with an abduction case after their bail pleas were rejected.
Till now, eight of the accused of the kidnapping case have surrendered in the court, including former Uttar Pradesh Minister Mool Chand and chairman, Bijnor Cooperative Bank, on May 16. Manoj Kumar Paras, an accused, is still absconding.
Notably, the kidnapping case had been registered in the laxamanjhula police station on the basis of the report lodged by Rohit Kumar, resident of Bijnor, on January 18 2013 against ten people.The case had been subsequently registered against the ten accused under sections 452, 365, 342, 504, 506 of Indian Penal Code.
As was earlier reported, during the time of Bijnor Zila Panchayat election 2013, many zila panchayat members, unwilling to cast votes, had gone to laxamanjhula and stayed in a resort there and during their stay in the resort, around 150 persons led by the former UP minister Mool Chand had allegedly stormed into it and kidnapped the zila panchayat members.