<p>Awadhesh Mandal, the absconding husband of JDU MLA Bima Bharti, who escaped from the police station after he was arrested in Purnia on Sunday, was re-arrested along with his three accomplices from Naugachia on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Mandal, who faces more than 100 cases of murder, extortion, loot and kidnap, was earlier arrested on Sunday evening on the charge of threatening eyewitnesses in a murder case in which he is a prime accused. But he escaped from the police station causing huge uproar from the Opposition which charged that the Nitish regime was protecting a history-sheeter since he was the husband of a ruling party legislator.<br /><br />“Now that Mandal has been arrested, another JDU MLA Sarfaraz Alam should also be brought to book,” demanded senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi. <br /><br />Sarfaraz, who is son of former Union minister and RJD MP Md Taslimuddin, has been charged with sexual misconduct with a fellow woman passenger on Guwahati-New Delhi Rajdhani Express which he boarded at Katihar while coming to Patna on Monday.<br /><br />FIR lodged<br /><br />Though a formal FIR has been lodged by a Delhi-based businessman against the JDU MLA, the legislator claimed he never travelled in the A-4 coach of the said train. <br /><br />His version is contrary to the allegation made by the couple travelling on berth number 3 of A-4 coach. <br /><br />In fact, the coach superintendent has already informed the railway mandarins about the presence of the JDU MLA, who was not a bonafide passenger, in the compartment. <br /></p>
<p>Awadhesh Mandal, the absconding husband of JDU MLA Bima Bharti, who escaped from the police station after he was arrested in Purnia on Sunday, was re-arrested along with his three accomplices from Naugachia on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Mandal, who faces more than 100 cases of murder, extortion, loot and kidnap, was earlier arrested on Sunday evening on the charge of threatening eyewitnesses in a murder case in which he is a prime accused. But he escaped from the police station causing huge uproar from the Opposition which charged that the Nitish regime was protecting a history-sheeter since he was the husband of a ruling party legislator.<br /><br />“Now that Mandal has been arrested, another JDU MLA Sarfaraz Alam should also be brought to book,” demanded senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi. <br /><br />Sarfaraz, who is son of former Union minister and RJD MP Md Taslimuddin, has been charged with sexual misconduct with a fellow woman passenger on Guwahati-New Delhi Rajdhani Express which he boarded at Katihar while coming to Patna on Monday.<br /><br />FIR lodged<br /><br />Though a formal FIR has been lodged by a Delhi-based businessman against the JDU MLA, the legislator claimed he never travelled in the A-4 coach of the said train. <br /><br />His version is contrary to the allegation made by the couple travelling on berth number 3 of A-4 coach. <br /><br />In fact, the coach superintendent has already informed the railway mandarins about the presence of the JDU MLA, who was not a bonafide passenger, in the compartment. <br /></p>
