The police tightened its grip on JD(U) MlA Sarfaraz Alam once he was suspended from the party and arrested him on Sunday after hours of interrogation.
Alam who had been suspended from the party a day earlier after Chief Mjnister Nitish Kumar publicly denounced him and talked about disciplinary as well as legal action. The Jokihat MlA is accused of misbehaving and using abusive language against a lady passenger on board Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Express on Sunday. An FIR against him had been lodged by passenger’s husband Jaspal Singh Bedi, a Delhi-based businessman, with Patna railway police.
Alam was arrested following interrogation at GRP. The interrogation had started on Saturday evening during which he was put face to face with the lady passenger through videoconferencing.
Initially, Alam had denied even traveling by Rajdhani from Katihar to Patna without ticket and claimed he traveled by road. But when shown the CCTV footage of Patna and Katihar railway stations and the loction of his mobile, he finally admitted that he had boarded the train.
But the MlA still insisted he didn’t misbehave with any passenger. Replying to the charge that he used abusive language, he claimed he used foul language while speaking on his phone and it was not aimed at the lady or any other passenger.
After his suspension from JD(U), Alam’s problems have multiplied. Alam who us son of RJD MP from Araria Mohammad Taslimuddin, a former Union MoS for Home, has also lost hope of getting any support from RJD boss lalu Prasad, who too denounced Alam’s misbehaviour and hailed his suspension while his son and health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav said the place for such people is jail.