Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and 54 others were remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a local court in Hazaribagh on Tuesday after they refused to seek bail in a case of alleged assault of a Jharkhand State Electricity Board official.
Sinha and others were arrested on Monday after JSEB’s Hazaribagh branch General Manager Dhanesh Jha filed an FIR, accusing them of tying him up during a demonstration by the BJP’s district unit on electricity crisis.
Sinha had admitted before the media on Monday that he had “instructed” the party’s women activists to tie up Jha using a rope. “Yes, I asked them to tie the hands of the GM as women are the worst sufferers for not getting power. Their children’s education is also suffering,” Sinha said. However, Jha was rescued by cops. Jha had said that the incident was “humiliating and insulting.”