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Tortured for daring to take on MP’s kin

PATNA: A kid-fight snowballed into a full-scale legal battle and now it has assumed gory proportions. A youth bears as many as 27 stubbed out marks of cigarettes on his two hands for refusing to withdraw cases filed against family members of an MP.

It was just a quarrel in the neighbourhood between two girls, one of whom happened to be a relative of Sitamarhi MP Sitaram Yadav of the RJD. Allegedly, however, the MP and his family members did not like it and his neighbour alleged that his 12-year-old sister was beaten up. He filed a case against the MP’s family members.

Dinesh Yadav paid for his daring. On April 4, the MP’s relatives reportedly barged into his home, gagged him and took him away. He turned down their repeated demand to withdraw the case that had been filed against them. The more he refused the more he suffered. Each refusal begot a fiery cigarette punch on his hand.

When there was no space left on one hand, the other hand was forced to bear the torture till he fainted. The two hands are full of boils, numbering 27. First the Nanpur police declined to file an FIR and when it did, it did not record Dinesh Yadav’s version but penned a complaint to its own liking.

Dinesh charged that the police had used the plain papers on which the MP’s brother Ram Lakhan Yadav and his two nephews Vinod and Pramod had obtained his signature. He charged that the police had not included Ram Lakhan’s name in the FIR but only of the MP’s two nephews.

He said that the MP’s relatives bumped in even at the hospital where he had sought to treat his burn injuries. The doctors showed no interest in him and did not prepare the medical report. Dinesh Yadav had to flee from the hospital with the police showing no concern to arrange for his medical examination report. He charged that much like him his other family members were a terrified lot and were on the run.

Learning the matter after the media took up the case, Tirhut Range DIG Arvind Pandey directed the Sitamarhi SP to lodge a case of kidnapping against the MP’s brother and his two nephews and plead for issuance of arrest warrants from the court.

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