Another Congress MlA, Dr Mohammad Muslim fell in trouble when he was arrested in about 15-year-old arson case and sent to jail on judicial remand, on Tuesday afternoon. MlA’s lawyer, also move bail application seeking his immediate release but the magistrate fixed Wednesday to hear the arguments. Now Dr Muslim had to spend at least one night behind the bars. Earlier, Congress MlA in Bharaich, Mukesh Srivastava, faced non-bailable warrant in connection with multi-crore rupees fraud in National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the CBI made several attempts to arrest him.
Reports said that Dr Muslim, the MlA from the Tiloi assembly segment which is the part of the Amethi lok Sabha seat represented by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, was wanted in connection with old arson case registered in year 2000.A total of 16 people, including Dr Muslim, have been charged with instigating arson at Silvala village in Tiloi tehsil. Other accused in the case have already surrendered in the court prior and only the Congress MlA was absconding.
When Muslim not turned up during hearing of the case, the court issued several warrants and later also served a Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW) against him. When Dr Muslim even than not appeared before the judge to seek bail, the court ordered attachment of his properties. Finally seeing the situation going out of his hand and in fear that his property will be now attached by the local police, Dr Muslim finally appeared before the court on Tuesday morning after filing his surrender application. He also sought bail from the court. Reports said that the Congress MlA also see ray of hope of getting an immediate relief when the judge fixed Tuesday afternoon to hear the arguments for bail. However, much to the surprise of Dr Muslim, the court finally postponed the hearing of the bail application till Wednesday, and ordered to sent Dr Muslim to jail. Judicial Magistrate Virendra Singh, while fixing Wednesday to hear to bail application had sent Dr Muslim to 14 days judicial custody remand.