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By Our Legal Correspondent
NEW DELHI, DEC. 14. Taking a serious view of the "illegal durbar" of the Rashtriya Janata Dal Member of Parliament, Pappu Yadav, in the Beur jail, the Supreme Court today sought the response of the Central Bureau of Investigation whether he could be shifted to a jail outside Bihar to put an end to his activities that contravened prison rules. A Bench, consisting of Justice N. Santosh Hegde and Justice S.B. Sinha, asked the Additional Solicitor-General, Amarendra Saran, appearing for the CBI, to indicate where and to which prison he could be shifted, either inside or outside Bihar. Mr. Yadav is in jail in connection with the Ajit Sarkar murder case following the cancellation of his bail. When senior counsel, R.K. Jain, appearing for Mr. Yadav said he would give an undertaking on his client's behaviour in prison, the Bench told counsel that "our hands were long enough to cancel his bail twice in the case but not long enough to keep him as an undertrial in the prison. We had directed him to be kept in a prison and not in a five-star hotel." "Mr. Yadav questions everybody's authority. He talks from the prison with VVIPs and those holding high offices in the Government from his mobile phone and all these are serious issues," the judges said. The Bench also transferred to the Supreme Court the Patna High Court proceedings in which notices were issued to cellular phone companies to give details of the telephone calls made by Mr. Yadav to VVIPs. The High Court notice would be treated as notice issued by the Supreme Court and the response should be filed before this court by January 3. The matter was posted for further hearing on January 4.
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